July 1: No more Office 2003 for OEMs
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| It’s only been six months since Microsoft launched Office 2007 at retail. But
| as of July 1, 2007, Microsoft won’t be making the OEM version of Office 2003
| to its PC partners, a k a “OEMs.”
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft has told OEMs that they must stop selling Windows XP preloaded on
| machines as of January 29, 2008. Retailers also are required to stop selling
| XP on that date.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=519
Wonderful. Just to ensure everyone needs to tolerate the moving goalpost that
is OOXML (breaking existing interoperability).
Related:
Microsoft Discusses Open Standards (versus Open Source Software)
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| Microsoft Discusses Open Standards (versus Open Source Software)
| So here are some "Key Messages" from Microsoft's standards team circa
| 2003...
|
| * Other types of standards (e.g., "proprietary standards")
| and market-based mechanisms exist and are currently used to
| facilitate interoperability. However, open standards ensure the
| highest level of interoperability across the widest range of
| competing products and services.
|
| You can read the rest but you get the idea. Sooooo ... ODF versus
| Microsoft Open XML. I guess we should judge each based on the
| number of implementations of each.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/05/microsoft_discu.html
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| "[Microsoft:] For example, we should take the lead in establishing a common
| approach to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our
| efforts to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally
| on the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
| not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to the
| industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
| benefit. We are large enough that this can work."
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http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
Vista Breaks Applications
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| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
|
| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
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