Story: Microsoft must drop its Office politics
Posted by: Rick Dunlow (Friday 2 September 2005, 4:43 PM)
Thank you for linking to Brian Jones's blog post in your article, as it helped me realize that your summary of what his post supposedly "boils down to" was quite innacurate and pushing a point of view. Given the number of people depending on Office, I'm glad Microsoft will not be sacrificing existing features while implementing an open format, and Brian even asks people to help them make it easier to write format converters.
Please take it easy on the Slashdotesque anti-Microsoft reporting.
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Story: Microsoft must drop its Office politics
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Thank you for linking to Brian Jones's blog post i... Rick Dunlow -
Sigh. Without a true industry standard we all wil... Arthur B. -
Industry standard is whatever sells the most... Jon -
Too bad that MS Office formats are a mov... Chris Rankin -
Jon tells us that the current industry s... Richard
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Jon, there's a difference between Industry Standar... Arthur B.
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More than an industry standard - an *open* standar... Anonymous
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Anonymous, thanks for describing it better then I... Arthur B.
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That was very well said. This whole Microsoft tac... Anonymous
