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The Review That Never Happened: Microsoft Office 2008
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| Office 2008 suffers from having two of its most important features --
| compatibility with Apple's Intel processors and Microsoft's new Office 2007
| file formats -- be things that users can't directly or immediately see.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward/2008/06/the_review_that_never_happened.html
OOXML was 'dumped' for a good reason perhaps.
Related:
Microsoft Discusses Open Standards (versus Open Source Software)
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| Microsoft Discusses Open Standards (versus Open Source Software)
| So here are some "Key Messages" from Microsoft's standards team circa
| 2003...
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| * Other types of standards (e.g., "proprietary standards")
| and market-based mechanisms exist and are currently used to
| facilitate interoperability. However, open standards ensure the
| highest level of interoperability across the widest range of
| competing products and services.
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| You can read the rest but you get the idea. Sooooo ... ODF versus
| Microsoft Open XML. I guess we should judge each based on the
| number of implementations of each.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/05/microsoft_discu.html
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| "[Microsoft:] For example, we should take the lead in establishing a common
| approach to UI and to interoperability (of which OLE is only a part). Our
| efforts to date are focussed too much on our own apps, and only incidentally
| on the rest of the industry. We want to own these standards, so we should
| not participate in standards groups. Rather, we should call 'to me' to the
| industry and set a standard that works now and is for everyone's
| benefit. We are large enough that this can work."
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http://www.os2site.com/sw/info/comes/px09509.zip
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