"Until there are OPEN, NON-PROPRIETARY STANDARDS that everyone can access and read, which are freely available so everyone can make their software 100% compatible with each other, Microsoft is unfairly using their size advantage to stop competition in the office market."
You are so right! Indeed, if all software products critical to running a business were standardized (I won't go as far as to say open source) - say like the TCP/IP protocol (or RFC based products), then the playing ground would be leveled and the choice of OS for the end user would not be based on pressure to upgrade due to obsolete/new formats, but rather it would be based on other innovation of non-business critical apps such as Windows Media Player, XMMS, etc., etc.
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