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Story: Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 6 September 2005, 4:15 PM)
It doesn't amaze me that Microsoft will be doing as much as it can to ensure that government agencies and companies stick with some iteration of Microsoft Office. Office has been Microsoft's biggest cash cow and anything that jeopardizes that income is a serious threat.
I do really applaud the Massachusetts for not going with a closed format. As we have seen with the Microsoft Word .doc format, lots of companies have been totally locked in for perceived compatibility issues. But as we all know, the .doc format differs from each version of Word and they are not truly backwards compatible.
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Story: Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
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Ofcourse Microsoft will have to do an all out assa... Arthur B. -
Let's hope they that Mass. doesn't have a lot... Anonymous -
The MS license is not online. I've looked and loo... Anonymous
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Yates is incorrect. OpenDocument is supported by... Anonymous
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In fact, many office packages support the for... a.c.
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Who do Microsoft think they are? If Pepsi went aro... Richard
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Well I think that MS products are much better... Anonymous
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For every popular piece of proprietary s... Anonymous
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"Well I think that MS products are much... Segovia
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Re: "If Pepsi went around threatening people... Chris Nicolson
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Re Re: "If Pepsi went around threatening... Richard
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I'm sick of Microsoft whining that... Rodd Clarkson
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Microsoft will not support OpenDocument in its... Yagotta B. Kidding
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(a) Microsoft's MSXML format won't open in Of... Anonymous
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Microsoft made the decision themselves. They decid... David Finch
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Where was Microsoft's concern for backward compati... Paul Robinson
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What I find funny, is that OOo 2.0 beta 2 sup... Mitch 74
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LIES AND FUD from Yates:
(1) As "a.c." points out,... Rick Stockton
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What a bunch of bull! Not supporting the OpenDocu... David Ross
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The comments from Microsoft don't hold water.
In w... Luke Kendall
