Vista SP1 to lie about RAM usage. Deliberately!
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| If you right click on "My Computer" and go to properties, it will show the
| amount of RAM that your computer can see. This is perfectly fine, but
| sometimes the ignorant consumer buys 4GB of RAM, and thinks there is a
| problem when their OS only reports 3GB.
| So, what does the richest company in the world do about it?
| Fix the problem at the core?
| Enforce manufacturers to use 64bit?
| nope. They just have their OS lie about it.
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http://www.antonywilliams.com/2007/12/vista-sp1-to-lie-about-ram-usage.html
Lying is OK at Microsoft. Examples below (from OOXML).
Recent:
Legacy format FUD
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| From CyberTech Rambler (and Slashdot) comes the news that the Office 2003
| Service Pack #3 disables (blocks) access to a number of legacy document
| formats. Details are in this MS support article. Formats so blocked include
| legacy Lotus 1-2-3 and Corel Quattro Pro formats. Why? According to the
| Microsoft support article, "By default, these file formats are blocked
| because they are less secure. They may pose a risk to you.".
|
| [...]
|
| Now it may be entirely possible that these old import filters in Excel are
| poorly written and poorly maintained and that Microsoft may be trying to
| reduce the overall security exposure of MS Office by ditching old code that
| is not strategic for them. But call it that. The MS Office code has the
| problem. Don't malign the formats. Don't make up some untenable story that
| DIF format is "less secure" and "may pose a risk for you".
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/legacy-format-fud.html
Bait and Switch
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| Promises have been made. Assurances have been given. Commitments have been
| proffered. But far less has been delivered.
|
| [...]
|
| So what Ecma is offering SC34 is nothing close to what was promised. Ecma is
| really seeking to transfer to SC34 the responsibility of spending the next 5
| years fixing errors in OOXML 1.0, while future versions of OOXML ("technical
| revisions") are controlled by Microsoft, in Ecma, in a process without
| transparency, and as should now be obvious to all, without sufficient quality
| controls.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/12/bait-and-switch.html
Microsoft won't commit to the open document standard it's pushing so hard
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| Now consider this from Brian Jones, a Microsoft manager who has worked on
| OOXML for six years. In July, Jones was asked on his blog whether Microsoft
| would actually commit to conform to an officially standardised OOXML. His
| response:
|
| ?It?s hard for Microsoft to commit to what comes out of Ecma [the European
| standards group that has already OK?d OOXML] in the coming years, because we
| don?t know what direction they will take the formats. We?ll of course stay
| active and propose changes based on where we want to go with Office 14. At
| the end of the day, though, the other Ecma members could decide to take the
| spec in a completely different direction. ... Since it?s not guaranteed, it
| would be hard for us to make any sort of official statement.?
|
| Now that?s cynical. 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.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3685&pagtype=all
Evidence of Microsoft Influencing OOXML Votes in Nordic States
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| "This is how a standard is bought," Bosson wrote later. "I left the meeting
| in protest - pissed off."
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Evidence_of_Microsoft_Influencing_OOXML_Votes_in_Nordic_States/1188335569
They just can't stop lying.
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| Of course, Microsoft already knows all this, and no doubt that is why they
| are working so hard to urge NB's to vote "Approval, with comments" with
| promises that their comments will be addressed at the BRM, a BRM that might
| not even occur. In fact, if everyone listened to Microsoft and followed their
| advice then that would almost guarantee that no BRM would be held and no NB's
| comments would be adopted.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/08/ooxml-brm.html
MSOOXML: Third Party Support - Apple iWork '08
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| When Apple released iWork '08, the Microsoft bloggers immediately jumped in
| to comment on how this is proof that MSOOXML is easily implementable by third
| parties. First of all, we need to realise that Apple sits in the Technical
| Committee at Ecma which "developed" this so called standard. So we should not
| be surprised at all if they have support of this file format in their
| upcoming products including the iPhone.
|
| What is not said however, and I have been waiting for days for a response
| from Microsoft's Stephen McGibbon, is why Apple does NOT really support
| MSOOXML....
|
| And it gets more interesting. The Cybertech Rambler has taken some time out
| to review the file formats in iWork '08. ...He also confirms what the
| Microsofties refuse to confirm: "on closer reading of iWorks website and
| documentation, it appears that iWorks can only read OOXML file but cannot
| write it. That’s a pity."
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/08/msooxml-third-p.html
Correcting false statements by Microsoft
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| I think it is important to correct the false - or maybe misquoted -
| statements by Vijay Kapoor, national technology officer of Microsoft India
| that I found in this interview under the question "Why does Microsoft want
| another standard, what's the rationale?". Microsoft starts the reply
| with "There are at least 4 good reasons why:" and then states the first
| reason.
|
| [...]
|
| Thus, all in all, the arguments provided by Microsoft in the interview don't
| seem to be valid.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/correcting_false_statements_by_microsoft
[OOXML:] e to the power of hype
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| Exponential growth is quite a claim. But what is the evidence? Microsoft
| provides this chart further down on the page, showing the growth in
| their "community":
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/08/e-to-power-of-hype.html
Microsoft FUD Watch, 8-3-07
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| At first glance, Robertson's statement is fairly innocuous. He is referring
| to Massachusetts' decision to support OOXML (Open Office XML) formats. The
| best FUD isn't immediately obvious. Microsoft PR agency sent this statement
| proactively, with lots of additional information. Usually, I have to pull out
| information kicking and screaming; it doesn't come this easy. There is a
| reason, and it's FUD.
|
| Microsoft is trying to fast track OOXML through ISO ratification, but there
| has been resistance. Even the United States ISO representative committee has,
| so far, failed to support OOXML standards ratification. Microsoft needed some
| good news, and Massachusetts delivered some—and powerful, because the
| Commonwealth had planned to dump Office altogether.
|
| Microsoft's Doug Mahugh and Jason Matusow piped in with blogs about the OOXML
| support by Massachusetts, which was expected, by the way. It's all FUD
| because the reasoning is this: If Massachusetts now considers OOXML open, it
| must truly be open. The Commonwealth also considers Adobe's PDF as open, too.
| It's not.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/microsoft_fud_watch_8307.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
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