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File formats, methods, and computer program products for representing presentations
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=12&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=(xml%20AND%20microsoft)&OS=xml%20AND%20microsoft&RS=(xml%20AND%20microsoft)
Microsoft calls Zoho the âFake Officeâ. Zoho responds with fakeoffice.org
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| One of the reason why Microsoft attracts so
| much bad press is their trash talk. If you
| follow Microsoftâs recent track record you
| will see a pattern. It begins with Steve
| Ballmer or any spokesperson from Microsoft
| making a disparaging comment about
| something, usually a competitorâs product.
| Later the product goes on to become a huge
| success and those blockheaded comments come
| around to kick Microsoft on their ass. More
| often than not, Microsoft ends up eating
| their own words.
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http://www.unixmen.com/news-today/527-microsoft-calls-zoho-the-fake-office-zoho-responds-with-fakeofficeorg
If it ain't broke...
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| The Open Source movement is consistent with
| a larger democratic proposition that the
| more that we can all be involved in affairs
| that concern them, the better off we'll all
| be. But sometimes the involvement of some
| people, whose concern is the maintenance of
| monopoly and control, doesn't serve the
| great good. Glynn Moody uncovers the
| sinister results that are threatening to
| emerge from a committee in Europe in a blog
| posting titled EU Wants to Re-define
| "Closed" as "Nearly Open".
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http://www.opensource.org/node/488
Recent:
Microsoft Patents XML Word Processing Documents
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| "Embrace. Extend. Patent. On Tuesday, Microsoft was granted U.S. Patent
| No.7,571,169 for its 'invention' of the Word-processing document stored in a
| single XML file that may be manipulated by applications that understand XML.
| Presumably developers are protected by Microsoft's 'covenant not to sue', so
| the biggest question raised by this patent is: How in the world was it
| granted in light of the 40-year history of document markup languages? Next
| thing you know, the USPTO will give Microsoft a patent for Providing
| Emergency Data in XML format. Oops, too late."
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/06/2322209/Microsoft-Patents-XML-Word-Processing-Documents?art_pos=1
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