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Story: Microsoft's standardisation move divides experts

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"Mark Taylor, executive director of the Open Source Consortium, agreed that Microsoft's move was not as open as it might first appear. He said that Microsoft appears to want to extend its "Office monopoly into the XML age. If the intention is to really play nicely with others in the open standards game, then why patent applications in this area?"
M$ is not going to to do anything without an ulterior motive.

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