Story: Microsoft must drop its Office politics
Posted by: Chris Rankin (Monday 5 September 2005, 8:40 AM)
Too bad that MS Office formats are a moving target. Imagine: everyone's corporate documents are going to become unreadable some day as soon as MS chooses to drop backwards compatibility with older versions of Office. And there's nothing that anyone can do except upgrade and migrate.
Still, at least that will keep everyone's I.T. departments busy.
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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.
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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
