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Is the New Microsoft Office Really Open?
joesklein asks: "From CNET, there is an article about the new Microsoft Office 11. In summary 'Microsoft says it's opening its Office desktop software by adding support for XML--a move that should help companies free up access to shared information. But there's a catch: It has yet to disclose the underlying XML dialect.' Could this be grounds for another anti-trust suit against Microsoft?"
Lets all pile on the one company that drove home the standards for the PC industry for years, and made sure that there would be one common platform that everyone could write to, and achived critical mass so there wouldn't be conflicting standards anymore....
For those who are clueless its supposed to be funny...paraphrasing MS themselves...before you troll me, at my comments in the past about good old M$....
Power Corrupts,Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, leaving one person(group)in charge is absolutely corrupt.
People would be able to create their own tools to interact with documents, instead of with MS tools. Where's the money in that? News flash: Hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide already developer their own tools to interact with MS documents. Some if not most serious developers have made a lot of money off writing programs for Windows/Office. Open your eyes and you will see that Microsoft makes business a lot of money. MS is a big help to the economy in that perspective.