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Microsoft Reaches Out To Blender

Posted by kdawson on from the first-we-embrace dept.

dmbasso writes "Continuing its strategy to support FOSS application on the Windows platform, Microsoft mailed the Blender developers asking how they could help improve the experience of Blender users on Windows. Groklaw puts it in perspective using Steve Ballmer's own words."

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  1. How the sleep at night? by Van+Cutter+Romney · · Score: 0, Troll

    FTFA:

    "Specifically, Microsoft is slowly shifting toward a more open standards based approach to its file formats. The ISO standard Office Open XML is an example of the direction we are moving towards."

    I mean when they say that, does the person at the other end of the phone put the line on mute and roll over laughing for a few minutes? Or when they're composing the email, does the writer actually believe what he (or she) is saying? How does the person who wrote this actually sleep at night?

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  2. The FA says . . . by rfc11fan · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Please also include in that list any Microsoft files that you might have trouble with."

    3-word answer: "All of them."

    OOPS!! My bias is showing!!!

  3. Re:Message to people who gripe about interfaces by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think what has happened, is that the myth that it is hard to use has preceded the application. Blender is not the only software with this problem. <cough>Office2007</cough>
  4. Re:Irony, much? by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 0, Troll

    claims about the content of the specification

    Oh god yes. Mod parent up, he's spot-on. The Open XML specification is arguably more implementable than the ODF spec; there are numerous cases in ODF where fairly vital information (cryptography comes to mind) is left up to the implementor, and incompatible versions exist.

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  5. Re:Still Bitter? by nuzak · · Score: 0, Troll

    And sometimes they post here.

    I rest my case.

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  6. Noooooooooo! by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't let them get involved, it will only serve to spell the eventual death sentence for one of OSS's star children.

    Microsoft ( understandably ) can only have nefarious intent here.

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  7. Wrong Goal. by willeyhill · · Score: 0, Troll

    The goal is to waste developer time on Windows and create debate and animosity about it. This is well documented behavior. They won't provide real help.

  8. If only I could have replied for them by baggins2001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dear MS,
    With regards to helping improve Blender experience on Windows.
    Publishing a SP that doesn't crash the users computers, would be a good start.

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