What better time for MS to talk about interoperability?
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| Microsoft's latest move on "interoperability" is an indication that it feels
| it has reached the stage of "extend" in the famous "embrace, extend and
| extinguish" strategy for which the company is well known. And the timing
| could not be better.
|
| The embrace of four Linux resellers in 2006 and 2007 has been well documented
| and needs no elaboration - eager for handouts and keen to stand in line like
| good citizens, Novell, Xandros, Turbo Linux and Linpsire signed up with the
| team in Redmond.
|
| It's curious that an announcement titled "Microsoft Executives to Make
| Significant Company Announcement" comes a few days before national standards
| bodies gather in Geneva to begin a meeting that will culminate with a vote on
| whether Microsoft Office Open XML is accepted as an ISO standard or not.
|
| Call me cynical but I can't help noticing that this move also comes on the
| heels of a European Union announcement that it would investigate Microsoft's
| actions in its bid to get OOXML adopted as an ISO standard.
|
| The detail of the announcement will emerge later, much later, as there are
| thousands of pages which one must digest. Significantly, there is no time for
| those who are attending the Geneva meeting to understand this announcement -
| and that is by design.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16795/1090/
Watch the media blitz again. Preparation for a 'big announcement'. All
perfectly prepared for deception. Here is why (a day ahead of the BRM):
Document format battle takes shape ahead of meeting
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| If the ISO does not approve the OOXML format, Microsoft might be forced to
| rethink its strategy around document formats if it wants government IT
| contracts
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/21/Document-format-battle-takes-shape_1.html
Related:
Countries adopting ODF (OpenDocument Format) Annual Report and Future Outlook
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| Following the trend at the national level, three regional governments -
| Kerala (a state in southwestern India), Misiones (a province in northeast
| Argentina), and Paraná (a state in southern Brazil) – adopted policies
| requiring the use of ODF. The year ended on a high note, with the Netherlands
| and South Africa officially adopting policies requiring ODF’s use by
| government agencies, joining ten other countries that had already done so.
| Norway required the use of ODF for all published, revisable documents on
| government web sites.
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http://fanaticattack.com/2008/countries-adopting-odf-opendocument-format-annual-report-and-future-outlook.html
ODF happening in Berlin
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| This should be a good event to get the pulse on ODF adoption in Europe.
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http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=408
South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard
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| The South African government yesterday announced the adoption of OpenDocument
| Format (ODF) as a standard for government communications.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=$id&src=digg
Netherlands Picks ODF
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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html
Malaysia formally embraces open doc format
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| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.
|
| [...]
|
| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm
Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674
Opendocument_adoption
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| Contents
|
| * 1 United States
| o 1.1 Massachusetts
| + 1.1.1 References
| o 1.2 Other states and organizations in the US
| + 1.2.1 References
| * 2 Europe
| o 2.1 EU Definition of an open standard
| o 2.2 United Kingdom
| + 2.2.1 Bristol City Council
| o 2.3 Belgium
| o 2.4 Finland
| o 2.5 Slovakia
| * 3 Other governments
| o 3.1 Australia
| o 3.2 India
| o 3.3 Japan
| o 3.4 Malaysia
| o 3.5 Peru
| o 3.6 Vietnam
| o 3.7 Other
| * 4 See also
| * 5 References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument_adoption
Microsoft CTO: ODF is an 'elegant' standard
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| "What [Microsoft] is doing with OOXML is to further lock down [users] with
| dependencies on Microsoft technologies as part of their business value
| chain," said Pillay.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft-CTO-ODF-is-an-elegant-standard/0,130061733,339286096,00.htm
Microsoft quietly supporting ODF?
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| The OpenDocument Society mentions in its newsletter that Microsoft might have
| an "ODF standards group" within the Microsoft Office team.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41287/microsoft-quietly-supporting-odf
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