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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."
Help! I just bought a ThinkPad (yes, IBM, not Lenovo). I run Windows on it. Which side should I take?!
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And it performs brilliantly with any product you want: MS Office Ultimate 2007, MS Office Professional 2007, MS Office Enterprise 2007, MS Office Standard 2007, or MS Office Small Business 2007.
Details here.
Given Microsoft's amazing track record at standardization!
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Hey Microsoft! We don't just hate you: fact is, your OpenXML spec is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled up knots! I mean, we at IBM know a brain-damaged document format when we see one (heck, we invented plenty of them ourselves) and trust us, this one takes the cake. Ratification of this garbage could set the word processing industry back about twenty years. So don't give us the "customer's interest" line. We know what this is all about: this is about YOU.
Disclaimer: I don't work for IBM (anymore|yet) and these ain't IBM opinions. Well, not official opinions, anyway. ^^
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What the heck kind of open document format requires a rocket scientist to figure out it sucks? Most rocket scientists know more about you know... rockets and stuff.
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Whats that Microsoft? IBM did what? Uh huh... uh huh... You sure? uh huh... Quick Somebody call Whine-1-1, and request a Whaaaaambulance!
Since the trailer park boys are hosting the ECMA's this year maybe they could get approval by some carefully placed bribes of Donairs and cigarettes.
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they raised holy hell
I'm not sure which is more amazing, that they made Hell holy, or that they raised it.
Considering though we're talking about Microsoft, i'm not sure it needs to make sense.
Have you read my journal today?
Well they were running Unholy Hell 1.0 and found a bug...
Eviscerati.Org: All Hail the Eviscerati
Well, sir, do I have good news for you.
There is a new viewer/editor program for OpenOffice.org files called, wait for it, "OpenOffice.org."
After installing the new OpenOffice.org file viewer/editor program, you will have the ability to open, view, edit and close ODF files without needing a separate compression utility.
It's like MAGIC!
Considering that MS has been the leading poster child for dirty, underhanded (and a few illegal) anti-competative practices for the last quarter century, it's more like the black hole calling the kettle black.
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Now I know you're making this up. You can't right click on a Mac.
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Is that the spec for OpenXML 2009?
Who is John Galt?