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Microsoft Blasts IBM Over XML Standards
carlmenezes writes "Ars Technica has up an article discussing Microsoft's latest salvo against IBM. Microsoft's open letter to IBM adds fresh ammunition to the battle of words between those who support Microsoft's Open XML and OpenOffice.org's OpenDocument file formats. Microsoft has strong words for IBM, which it accuses of deliberately trying to sabotage Microsoft's attempt to get Open XML certified as a standard by the ECMA. In the letter, general managers Tom Robertson and Jean Paol write: 'When ODF was under consideration, Microsoft made no effort to slow down the process because we recognized customers' interest in the standardization of document formats.' In contrast, the authors charge that IBM 'led a global campaign' urging that governments and other organizations demand that International Standards Organization (ISO) reject Open XML outright."
yeah, the people who brought us Jscript, their proprietary version of Java, and who have failed to document the Windows registry for more than a decade are bitching about open standards.
I'll be siding with IBM on this one. You gotta watch Microsoft like a hawk, cause once they get their "Open XML" going, there ain't gonna be nuthin OPEN about it.
If I didn't have absolutely NOTHING to do, I wouldn't be here.
M$ft made their company out of sabatoging competitors products and called it 'free market competition' - they will just have to eat it when others get the upper hand and give them a taste of their own medicine.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Christ who modded this garbage to 5 insightful?
Sure , uncompressing one document is no sweat (though not uncompressing it would be even less). Now try doing it to 10 million while the user waits.
Go get a clue.