Microsoft needs to blush
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| OOXML needs to die. It's clear that OOXML is a faux standard -- not because
| it's a vendor standard. There are lots of vendor-created standards which are
| real standards (e.g. PostScript). No, OOXML is a botch because it's expressed
| in terms of an undocumented Microsoft graphics library. OOXML is all "and
| then a miracle occurs". You've seen that cartoon, right? Where the left and
| right sides of the blackboard are filled with equations, and the blank space
| in the middle says "and then a miracle occurs". Well, when there's a miracle
| required, there's no science even if the miracle is surrounded by
| scientific-seeming accoutrement. A standard which is expressed in terms of
| miracles is still a miracle and not a standard.
|
| Any standards body that approves OOXML needs to blush. Any company which
| submits OOXML as a standard needs to blush.
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http://opensource.org/node/273
Searching for document formats
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| I’m not sure there’s a concrete conclusion here though it is clear to me that
| Microsoft Live Search has the least useful and relevant set of links about
| ODF in the top ten beyond the Wikipedia entry. I find that odd. Perhaps they
| just have a really quirky relevance algorithm.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2143
Microsoft is also spamming YouTube with an account called "OpenXML" that posts
viral ads for OOXML.
Related:
A Pre-BRM Miscellany
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| Google searches for "ODF" and "OpenDocument" or even "noooxml" are now
| returning sponsored links with phrases like "Learn the truth about the
| standard for interoperability" that lead you to a pro-OOXML petition on
| Microsoft's faux OOXML community site. For example, try this query.
|
| Let's see if I understand how this pay-per-click system works. Every time I
| click these sponsored links, money gets transferred out of some pro-OOXML
| supporter's bank account and is sent to Google? These seems the expensive
| route to go, but there is some logic to it. A look at Google Trends shows
| that Google queries for "ODF" far outnumber queries for "OOXML".
|
| On the other side, at the real <NO>OOXML petition, the count stands at 82,422
| signatures. Apparently they did not need to trick people into visiting their
| web site.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/02/pre-brm-miscellany.html
Is Microsoft tinkering with Live Search results?
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| Is Microsoft filtering out from its Live Search results those it
| considers “undesirable” for the company?
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1127
Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam
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| Dear reader, please tell me: what do you think of a search engine that steals
| (bandwidth and AdSense revenue), lies, spams away, and is not clever enough
| to stop their criminal activities when they’re caught?
|
| Recently a Live Search rep whined in an interview because so many robots.txt
| files out there block their crawler...
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http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/microsoft-live-search-the-downfall-of-a-tiny-search-engine/
Microsoft’s Club Live fiasco
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| People were using the macro on more than 3 games at a time, on more than 2
| accounts at a time, why Microsoft didn’t pick up on the fact that in the
| first few days some people had accumulated enough for 3 Zunes each is beyond
| us. Some were lucky, others, not so much.
|
| [...]
|
| So far no one has been banned from using their accounts, which they needed to
| sign up, probably because they did not break any laws, or probably because
| Microsoft didn’t want that hassle and liked their new found traffic.
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http://www.blogthe.net/2007/07/16/microsofts-club-live-fiasco/
Bots Helped To Boost Microsoft Live Search Gains
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| In a blog post, Compete analyst Steve Willis attributed Microsoft's
| search gains to prizes awarded to users participating in Live Search
| Club, which features games that post queries to Microsoft's search
| engine.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoft is essentially being DDoSed by thousands of people hundreds
| of times per minute, but they are mistaking this rise in traffic for
| people actually using Live Search."
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001092
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