Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 03 March 2008 11:25 : \____
>
>> Gordon <gbplinux@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> Microsoft's New Meme: "Marketplace Relevance"
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>> | This seems to be preparing the ground for an eventual rejection of
>>>>> | OOXML. The line would be well, being an official ISO standard isn't *so*
>>>>> | important: what matters is "marketplace relevance". And we all know what
>>>>> | that means: just keep that status quo rolling...
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>>
> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/03/microsofts-new-meme-marketplace.html
>>>>
>>>> No doubt that Microsoft had the spin ready for no matter what the
>>>> outcome was. This world of spin is deeply tedious.
>>>>
>>>
>>> On a related topic, I was in a country park visitor centre on the edge
>>> of Birmingham last Friday and picked up a leaflet issued by Birmingham
>>> Council, actively promoting Open Office! Apparently OO is used on all
>>> Birmingham public-access machines (ie in libraries etc) on which users
>>> are encouraged to d/l Open Office!
>>
>> Wow, so they've started to get it right there after all? I recall that
>> they had a go, but it went rather badly awry in the past. Perhaps Roy
>> still has an article or two on this?
>
> There were recent reports. Yes, Birmingham is also quite excited about all
> those Linux laptops.
>
> OO.org is being downloaded at least a million times a week (and rising I
> suppose). Not too shabby. It supports ODF and 2.4 (never mind 3.0) will have
> some OpenGL-accelerated goodness. Office 2007 on the other hand has crashes as
> a /feature/ (I kid you not, that's what Microsoft says).
>
>
The quality gap between foss and proprietary software is now getting so
wide that even the world's most powerful and experienced marketing
machine can no longer paper over that gap.
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