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Microsoft Claims OpenDocument is Too Slow
SirClicksalot writes "Microsoft claims that the OpenDocument Format (ODF) is too slow for easy use. They cite a study carried out by ZDNet.com that compared OpenOffice.org 2.0 with the XML formats in Microsoft Office 2003. This comes after the international standards body ISO approved ODF earlier this month." From the ZDNet article: "'The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory,' Alan Yates, the general manager of Microsoft's information worker strategy, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday. 'The Open XML format is designed for performance. XML is fundamentally slower than binary formats so we have made sure that customers won't notice a big difference in performance.'"
Because we find the slashbots' misinformed, knee jerk, MS bashing tedious?
Gosh, if you find it so tedious why are you still here? Somebody paying you?
Because we find that often, their tools are a good solution for our problems?
And that somehow makes everything else bad?
Because we aren't interested in fighting the Linux Jihad?
Free clue: Multi-million dollar marketing is every bit as much a jihad and some balance is needed.
Take Vista as an example. There've been practically daily stories spammed on technical news sites all over the net for literally years, and the product isn't even formally released yet! Talk about jihads, they're insane.
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What are you talking about? That's *all* they've done! Every statement by them on the matter has been framed in terms of OO.o vs MSO. Microsoft know very well what they're doing and saying. And what they've been doing is reframing the debate (e.g in MA) as one of "forcing people to use different software", that is slow or doesn't support the disabled or doesn't feed the poor or whatever deficiency that OO.o has. In other words, FUD.