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...
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| * 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.
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| 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
Premarket Movers: General Motors Wobbles
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| Rodman & Renshaw analyst Amit Dayal said the stock could slip as
| investors worry Verizon Communications Inc., a Smith customer, will
| object to compatibility issues between Smith products and Microsoft
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Corp.'s new Vista operating system.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070503/premarket_movers.html?.v=1
Related:
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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.
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| 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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