Same thing underneath? Really? Complete redesign of Office to be based on XML standard is the same thing as vendor lock?
Their intent is not questionable. They are a public company with responsibility to share holders. Their intent is to make money. And that should be obvious to anyone with half a brain and over the age of 6.
Its great that you want government to tell the companies what standard to use. Government have been doing such a great job regulating everything else, please lets have them do this as well.
Open source community loves to have government regulate Microsoft, but would scream bloody murder if someone tries to regulate open source development.
So the fact that MSFT invests millions into interoperability initiatives and open source support is their evil plan to take away your right to chose?
They switched to XML for all Office doc formats to allow open standard so you have freedom of choice and can use any app you want to edit and open documents. They spend time and money creating software that works better and faster and more reliably then anything out there available for free and that is why people buy it.
There are no closed formats anymore and you do have a choice specifically because of msft.
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Same thing underneath? Really? Complete redesign of Office to be based on XML standard is the same thing as vendor lock? Their intent is not questionable. They are a public company with responsibility to share holders. Their intent is to make money. And that should be obvious to anyone with half a brain and over the age of 6. Its great that you want government to tell the companies what standard to use. Government have been doing such a great job regulating everything else, please lets have them do this as well. Open source community loves to have government regulate Microsoft, but would scream bloody murder if someone tries to regulate open source development.
So the fact that MSFT invests millions into interoperability initiatives and open source support is their evil plan to take away your right to chose? They switched to XML for all Office doc formats to allow open standard so you have freedom of choice and can use any app you want to edit and open documents. They spend time and money creating software that works better and faster and more reliably then anything out there available for free and that is why people buy it. There are no closed formats anymore and you do have a choice specifically because of msft.