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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
Posted by: Dan Clayton (Saturday 8 October 2005, 6:23 PM)
Microsoft is gambling that they can break a troublesome customer. I think they will find that many goverment agencies and corporations will demand native ODF support. Will Microsoft write off the EU, China or major corps? I think not but this is really about owning your own data. If your data is not in an open format how do you know you can access it in five years or the next time your vendor changes their data format? There are warehouses of tapes which can not be easily restored today, time to move toward the future.
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Story: Microsoft 'must support OpenDocument'
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Mr. Taylor, do you actually know how many customer... Anonymous -
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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
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Yet another prediction of Microsoft's defeat. Wasn... Matt S
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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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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.
