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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'

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Posted by: Matt S (Friday 7 October 2005, 1:32 AM)

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Yet another prediction of Microsoft's defeat. Wasn't Netscape the death of MS? And the Web? And Linux? And Mac OS X, perenially? And Google? And the thin client, also perenially?

What MS does best is to create things that customers will buy. If it's more profitable to support ODF, they will. If not, not.

More likely, a third party will build a plug-in ODF, just as Acrobat has been the third-party solution for PDF.

The problem is, in its search for a philosophical purity, Massachusetts has chosen a road that no for-profit enterprise would. Which is, to limit their users' choices (and productivity) for the sake of "principle".

Perhaps they need to look at their vehicle fleets and office buildings, and remove any proprietary technology out of those?

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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'

  1. Mr. Taylor, do you actually know how many customer... Anonymous
  2. OpenOffice does have an export as PDF functio... Anugraha
  3. It just floors me how many folks line up in s... Steve Thompson
  4. What's the population of Massachusetts? Isn't it m... Tomas Marek
  5. There is a very good text about it here: http://ww... Anonymous
  6. Can you imagine any other industry where if s... Richard
  7. Microsoft is gambling that they can brea... Dan Clayton
  8. Yet another prediction of Microsoft's defeat. Wasn... Matt S
  9. Quote: "The problem is, in its search for a p... Neal Schulz
  10. "The problem is, in its search for a phi... Matt
  11. Re Matt: Netscape nearly did harm Microsoft.... Richard
  12. Most people seem to either hate them or... Anonymous
  13. Does anybody know what the licensing terms are for... Tavis
  14. The logic is inescapable: OpenOffice can happily r... Paul Vincent
  15. Why do you hate Microsoft Office so much? It'... Microsoft Office Fan
  16. > Why do you hate Microsoft Office so mu... Rodd Clarkson
  17. Personally, I've been using OOo for... Mitch 74
  18. What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
  19. What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
  20. Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS includ... Anonymous
  21. > Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS... Flash
  22. > Doesn't anyone else see the problem wi... Rodd Clarkson
  23. ODF is _not_ "quite new", it is based on StarOffic... Anonymous
  24. Ad hominem attacks are the hallmark of MS apologis... Olavi Petri
  25. I disagree. MS Office is used so extensively that... Anonymous
  26. "MS Office is used so extensively that .doc i... Sean Jodrey
  27. Do people really believe in 5 years time... Jon
  28. >There is no more chance of people... Anonymous
  29. Point is people dont really ca... Jon
  30. Re: "Do people really believe... Richard
  31. Now I would not go as far as saying... Clifford
  32. Standards are not meant to be static. T... Anonymous
  33. makes sense i understand your point... Scott W
  34. %^SJAKDH ASL J^(A^ AOS A) )AS)A(US )(A*S That's ho... JJ
  35. Ejaculate on Microsoft! Testy Testerton
  36. Standards are meant to be fully backward compatibl... Arthur B.

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