____/ 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).
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