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Story: Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push

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Posted by: superm401 (Thursday 31 January 2008, 2:09 AM)

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Confusion

"I think too many people are confusing open standards with open source." (Peter O'Kelly, Burton Group)

"ODF is a fine open-source offering and it's a capable product but, put it side by side with the things you can do with Office 2007, and it's a very different user experience." (Peter O'Kelly, Burton Group)

Of course, ODF is an open standard, not an open source offering. But these are merely details...

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The internet is going to have do a lot of maturing before it is ready for this kind of traffic. Security is always going to be a problem, connectivity is poor, and most business's are unwilling for their employees to have open access.

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