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Microsoft Just Says No to .Doc Replacement Panel
Schlemphfer writes "OASIS is a nonprofit consortium backed by top technology companies, and the purpose of this organization is to set open standards for desktop and business software. They've just announced a working group that will create an XML-based document format standard for openoffice.org. And even though Microsoft is a member of Oasis, they aren't going to be taking part in this group. It's a logical move on Bill's part, considering that standardized XML docs are sure to weaken the hold that Microsoft's proprietary .doc format has on business software."
RTF and Text are not good at all... Especially when you want send an email saying "The meeting is at 10:30am. See you there", we need Office XP doc file, with a couple of signature attachments -- better yet, copy a PPT slide from standard company template and highlight the 10:30 with big, bright colors.
Call this post a flamebait, but most people that use "Word" do that stuff.
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It's not that Microsoft didn't *want* to contribute. Here's their proposed DTD:
Office 11 will have an XML format available...
I can see it now....
<?MSXML version="1.0">
<data>
$%G)FKJ#$&F_CGKASK!^HAD*+ZXL:P::?......
We're going to make information free Mr. Anderson, whether you like it, or not.
>> After all they are looking for more partners to screw.
And when you get screwed by microsoft, you're also screwing every partner that's ever been screwed, and the ones who screwed them.
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well of course replace it! who needs a defacto standard that in reality is :-)
dodgy old crap ?
<xml>
<document type="ms-word">
<data>aksljdflkaj31948lksadjfmn232.....</data>
</document>
</xml>
Ahh, open standards at work over in Redmond.
In related news, slashdot.org has changed its mission statement. Instead of bringing you the latest _news_ (which is now done more effectively by Google), they are now commited to keeping you up to date on each and every way MicroSoft protects its assets, screws it's customers, and opens the web to anyone by spreading software with severe security holes. After the physical move of the servers a while ago, the editors now announce the immediate move of the site to the new domain: slashdot.microsoft.com .
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Because the major corporate customers know that proprietary products screw consumers in the long and possibly short run.
And that's why they're all switching to Linux or *BSD!
Oh, wait.
{insert proprietary data in closed format}
This is no worse than my company sending out a new e-mail policy as an attached Word document.
It had no fancy formatting, and was essentially a list of do's and don'ts for corporate e-mail usage. One of the items on the list was "don't include unnecessary attachments - if it can be said in plain text, don't make it a Word document"...
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So maybe McAfee or Symantec or someone like that, slipped a few bucks into Microsoft's pocket to ask 'em to oppose the new format. ;-)
(I love coming up with this crazy shit.)
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