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Windows is the Most Open Platform There is, Says Satya Nadella (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the to-each-his-own dept.

On Tuesday in a conversation with Gartner analysts, Satya Nadella talked about the future of AI, the cloud, Windows, and what his company plans to do with LinkedIn. But the most notable remark from Nadella was when he said this, "Windows is the most open platform there is." ZDNet adds: It came in the context of Nadella talking about Microsoft's mission to unite the three big constituencies in the technology world. "That's the approach we've always taken," said Nadella, "bringing users, IT, and developers together... When you bring them together, that's where the magic happens." He reminded the audience of several thousand technology leaders that Microsoft began by making tools, then it made apps, and now it makes platforms. Or, it buys them.

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  1. Open? Open season perhaps... by evolutionary · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uh, Linux is open. MS is more like, "open season" for hackers since MS leaves so many holes and doorways it's like open season especially with Windows 10.

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    "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
  2. Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Network World article: Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. Quote: "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC."

  3. Re:You keep using that word by higuita · · Score: 5, Informative

    you are kidding, right? or just ignorant? or maybe one more shill?

    ODF is a official standard, older than OOXML, simple, consistent and very well documented:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://docs.oasis-open.org/of...

    OOXML on the other hand, was heavily pushed by MS to be a standard and only got approved by using very shady tactics. The format have fields of "closed binary" blobs for "compability" reasons and is not even correctly used by MS office, as their documents fail to pass the standard validation tools. The format is also extremely complex (that is why it needs 6000+ pages spec) and have patents (MS promises to not sue anybody due to this... but this is MS and history show that it can be trusted). Finally, it uses embedded objects in several formats that only exist in windows, instead of already existent standard format objects. Everything to lock up the format to windows and MS office, even if the format is (almost) "open"

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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    Higuita