The original idea of a united Europe was a peace project. It was not about liberalizing markets, although even that is not necessarily against the interests of citizens.
Indeed, but open source continues to make inroads. The defensive strategy doesn't work. Microsoft has to get real on support for open source.
Think of OOXML, they fought an insane battle to get their own ISO/IEC alternate standard format and now they abandonned it. In the end everyone will use ODF anyway.
Google is smarter. Where is the Microsoft summer of code?
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Who are the persons? Unelected conspirators govern the EPO? Bilderberg group?
The original idea of a united Europe was a peace project. It was not about liberalizing markets, although even that is not necessarily against the interests of citizens.
Why are you against liberalizing market?
How does Microsoft Office Online relate to this.
And it does not seem to get worse, indeed.
The government should dump 500 million $ in development to get rid off our MS-Office dependencies.
To me it looks like ODF 1.2 is the future, it is also backed by Microsoft.
The old scare propaganda. Reality tells that what happens on Windows all the time hardly happens with Linux.
I have no Desktop security issues and Kubuntu just works fine for me.
I mean, really, the whole real world security issue problem originate from Windows.
Of course we hear a lot about vulnerabilities but these are not real world issues.
Of course the person who copies your car deprieves you from selling it to him. No exclusive property.
The German robots. That is the point.
That reminds me of an old soldier tune.
It would be more sustainable and cheaper to invest in patent reform than to license trivial patents of course...
Basically we just need a government (Russia??) to say, enough is enough and make them dump some money of OpenOffice.
Really? Only for document consumers?
OOXML is just Microsoft. ODF is SUN/Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and many more.
The problem is that Google Apps is good enough for many of us and it just works.
It is their cash cow. We know that their Office monopoly is on decline, it is just a matter of time.
Use OpenOffice then.
I don't think you speak truth.
But why can't Microsoft provide decent documentation?
So what, of course you should pay for support.
Thank you for clarifications.
What I always wonder is why Microsoft does not keep "backwards compatibility" with documentation urls. It always gets moved around and lost.
The operating system doesn't matter, what matters is office. Kill Microsoft's cash cow and they go sane. So indeed Oracle is their largest competitor.
Self-motivation is fine and for the same reasons Microsoft should support open source and reape the full benefits from it.
Indeed, but open source continues to make inroads. The defensive strategy doesn't work. Microsoft has to get real on support for open source.
Think of OOXML, they fought an insane battle to get their own ISO/IEC alternate standard format and now they abandonned it. In the end everyone will use ODF anyway.
Google is smarter. Where is the Microsoft summer of code?
Nope. ODF is managed by OASIS and it is really not driven by SUN or Oracle.