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Don't Forget UOF: Here Comes EIOffice 2009
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| That said, the new suite claims to be ahead of Office 2007 in one more
| specific respect. According to Interfax, EIOffice 2009 is compatible with
| ODF as well as OOXML files. (Details on how difficult that might have been
| to achieve can be found here).
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| While Evermore may not cost Microsoft many sales in the West, it could prove
| to be a formidable opponent in what I expect will soon be the largest market
| for software in the world - China, with its 1.3 billion people. China is
| determined to promote its own software industry, and Evermore also will have
| a distinct price advantage, at least relative to Microsoft's standard list
| prices. The top edition of EIOffice 2009 will sell for RMB 1,198 ($174.92),
| as compared to the RMB 4,902 ($717.83) price in China for Microsoft's
| professional Office 2007 edition.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080721140512962
Related:
Microsoft ‘monopoly’ comes under fire
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| We are calling on the government to veto the OOXML format at the
| International Organization for Standardization (ISO).” The OOXML format is a
| file specification released by Microsoft in December last year for its
| Microsoft Office 2007 suite. It is currently in a fast track standardization
| process with the ISO and will be subject to voting next month. Unlike the
| current ISO digital document standard ODF (Open Document Format) and China’s
| national standard UDF (Unified Office Document Format), Microsoft’s OOXML
| format can only be run on a Windows platform.
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| It is also criticized for containing many proprietary technologies that can
| only be fully supported by Microsoft’s Office products.
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http://www.bbj.hu/main/news_29721_microsoft+%25E2%2580%2598monopoly%25E2%2580%2599+comes+under+fire.html
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