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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Posted by: Richard (Saturday 8 October 2005, 4:22 PM)
Can you imagine any other industry where if someone chooses to not buy the product of one particular vendor it seems that the world will end? Should I not choose a Ford Car do I expect lots of people to come out telling me how I'm going to die in a road crash before too long?
What's most laughable is the people who equate "Microsoft, or Microsoft" as having choice and "As long as it implements OpenDoc" as no choice. At least two commercial entities have announced support - Sun and WordPerfect. Such attachment to Microsoft is something I just don't understand.
In the development world I'm moving from Eclipse which is free and starting to use Visual Studio which is expensive, buggy and lacks so many usability features of Eclipse - yet people insist that it's better! All I can think is the fear of change moving all those VB developers to Java, yet the conceptual leaps to move to Dot-Net are huge enough anyway.
Perhaps you've invested so much effort learning how to work around and become comfortable with your computer's shortfalls you are afraid of change to something else. It takes time to learn an office suite or a development environment. Perhaps this fear of change and having to relearn is the problem.
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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
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Mr. Taylor, do you actually know how many customer... Anonymous -
OpenOffice does have an export as PDF functio... Anugraha -
It just floors me how many folks line up in s... Steve Thompson
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What's the population of Massachusetts? Isn't it m... Tomas Marek
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There is a very good text about it here:
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Can you imagine any other industry where if s... Richard -
Microsoft is gambling that they can brea... Dan Clayton -
Yet another prediction of Microsoft's defeat. Wasn... Matt S
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Re Matt: Netscape nearly did harm Microsoft.... Richard
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Most people seem to either hate them or... Anonymous
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Does anybody know what the licensing terms are for... Tavis
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The logic is inescapable: OpenOffice can happily r... Paul Vincent
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Why do you hate Microsoft Office so much? It'... Microsoft Office Fan
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> Why do you hate Microsoft Office so mu... Rodd Clarkson
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Personally, I've been using OOo for... Mitch 74
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What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
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What a biased load of crap. Open office is shit. I... Anonymous
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Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS includ... Anonymous
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> Doesn't anyone else see the problem with MS... Flash
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> Doesn't anyone else see the problem wi... Rodd Clarkson
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ODF is _not_ "quite new", it is based on StarOffic... Anonymous
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Ad hominem attacks are the hallmark of MS apologis... Olavi Petri
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I disagree. MS Office is used so extensively that... Anonymous
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"MS Office is used so extensively that .doc i... Sean Jodrey
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Do people really believe in 5 years time... Jon
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>There is no more chance of people... Anonymous
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Point is people dont really ca... Jon
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Re: "Do people really believe... Richard
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Now I would not go as far as saying... Clifford
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Standards are not meant to be static. T... Anonymous
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makes sense
i understand your point... Scott W
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That's ho... JJ
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Ejaculate on Microsoft! Testy Testerton
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Standards are meant to be fully backward compatibl... Arthur B.
