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Re: [News] Microsoft's OOXML Forcefeeding Strategy Includes Deprecation

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Gordon on Thursday 07 February 2008 19:40 : \____
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Related:
>>> 
>>> Microsoft Breaks the [ODF] Plugins
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Sun is having trouble because Microsoft is breaking interoperability
>>> | deliberately through hi-jinks with the Dynamic-Link Libraries ("dll") in
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/microsoft-break.html
>> 
>> Sorry Roy - that link is over six months old, and I have just opened an
>> ODF document in Word 2007 SP1 with no problems at all.
> 
> Yes, but it was a major incident at the time... Even made the front page of
> some major sites. Conveniently, Microsoft needn't bother to check
> compatibility with such 'evil' plugins.

Microsoft will probably break it again.  This is the tactic they used
against DRDOS and Netscape, it's all well documented.  

> 
>> However, I /do/ think that the OOXML thing is very dangerous...
> 
> Just seen a comment somewhere and it said that rather than fix the security
> issues, "typical Microsoft" just disables the whole feature. Everything for a
> forced upgrade...
> 
> How true.
> 

Why would you fix a security issue if you can sqeeze your customers
instead?


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