Frankly Speaking: Microsoft's Cynicism
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| After all this work to make OOXML a formal, independent standard — a standard
| created and promoted by Microsoft, remember — Microsoft won’t agree to follow
| it.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=government&articleId=302256&taxonomyId=13&intsrc=kc_feat
Can’t we all just get along?
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| But it would create a broader base of supported applications; simplify the
| lives of future archivists, historians and prosecutors; and not require users
| to choose between Microsoft and the rest of the world.
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45014-1.html
Ellison called a scenario such as this "Bill against The World". Didn't Gates
said he wants world domination?
Related:
Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting
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| Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the Secretary of Defense
| and the Secretary of Commerce to push the American National Standards
| Institute to ignore the votes of its advisory committees and vote "yes" on
| ISO standardizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in
| competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun.
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| Gates reportedly picked up the phone when the last INCITS ballot failed by
| one vote to support Microsoft.
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http://xml.sys-con.com/read/419573_p.htm
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