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Story: Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
Posted by: Paul Robinson (Tuesday 6 September 2005, 3:33 PM)
Where was Microsoft's concern for backward compatibility before? At least one version of Office made files that once you loaded ones from an earlier version in and saved them, even if you changed nothing, the file could no longer be read by a prior edition.
One thing about Word Perfect was, all of their file formats were downward compatible as long as you didn't use a feature implemented later. If you did, and you tried to open the document in an earlier version of WP, the functionality provided by that feature would simply be ignored and the document would still load.
Why does Microsoft suddenly have this concern about backward compatibility of other formats when it never had it for its own? Sounds like the hypocritical comments of a company that is scared to death of people being able to break the chains of vendor lock-in.
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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 -
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
