Microsoft's OOXML: The No vote
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| "If I want to become a vendor of office productivity tools, if I have to - in
| order to be interoperable with other tools - implement two different
| standards or five or ten different standards, then the cost becomes
| overwhelming."
|
| Rasmussen said what Google would like to see is further development of ODF in
| lieu of standardising a new format, particularly to enable the ability to
| convert old files to the latest format in full fidelity.
|
| "I don't believe its true that ODF could not, with a reasonable amount of
| effort, be developed to a state where that could be done.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1414093266&rid=-219
"We should dedicate a cross-group team to come up with ways to leverage Windows
technically more."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft fiend
Related:
Google Presentations beta steals wind from Powerpoint sails
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| As Google continues to deny that it is building a stable of online Microsoft
| Office competitors, the rhetoric continues to sound increasingly hollow with
| the launch of an online tool obviously designed to steal some of the wind
| from Microsoft's Powerpoint sails.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14509/1054/
Google Apps Catches Flak
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| Microsoft is launching an anti-Google propaganda campaign.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2007/09/11/google-apps-catches-flak/?mod=yahoo_hs
Microsoft Retaliates With 10 Reasons Not To Use Google Apps
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| This, of course, brought Google even closer to rivaling Microsoft's Office
| suite, which has now spurred a reaction from the Redmond software giant.
|
| No, its not new software or updates for the popular productivity suite, but
| rather Microsoft's own reasoning on why businesses should NOT use Google
| Apps.
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http://www.profy.com/2007/09/11/microsoft-retaliates-with-10-reasons-not-to-use-google-apps/
Will Google Loosen Microsoft's Grip on Large Enterprise?
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| It’s got to be frustrating to sit in Redmond today and watch the world go by
| without having much of a grip on it anymore.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070910/46884_id.html?.v=1
Out of the office
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| Nobody's better at defending its turf than Microsoft of course, so this will
| not be a quick or easy war.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/commentary-watch-out-microsoft-google/story.aspx?guid=%7BD0EF1345-0BC4-459A-A780-8F861CEEAE40%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/2lxuct
New Spreadsheets fun
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| Here's a sampling of what people have been asking for:
|
| * support for Open Document Format (handy for those who use
| linux-based machines and Open Office products)
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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-spreadsheets-fun.html
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