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The FUD has been turned off
Even if Microsoft management intends to do wrong with this anouncement there is something good about it. It means thousands of shops with OpenOffice projects underway do not need to arm themselfs for battle with decison makers who are or were influence peddled by the monopolist. It means developers who where only half in with openoffice can now devote efforts full time to ODF because they know their efforts will be used even should their companies or governement agencies obtain free Microsoft Office donations from the Gates Foundation. Lets recognize that tax payers and share holders have a hard time with payment for something that is basically unnecessary like Office 7. It would take action like dropping support on older versions of Office to sell that purchase.

The Fear Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) about open source has been turned of for now. Microsoft management must know they can not win a battle on price performance and power consumption with current offerings from the monopoly. This is because the Intel and AMD chips in the 2007 model computers address the three Ps and security by implementing proven mainframe technology. This multicore technology requires software to be threaded, meaning that Java now rules.

If management is smart they will get on a JVM for Vista proto. The Linux threat is lessoned but not eliminated with this anouncement. The hearts and minds of the Java developers are turning to Linux because so many of the development tools operate better there.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP
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Offce Open XML, not Open Office XML...  Fred Fredrickson | 07/06/06
Pay attention to what is said  bportlock | 07/06/06
What MS means is...  Fred Fredrickson | 07/06/06
Microsoft's Talent focused on Bending the Truth  brenthawkinsmd | 07/06/06
Microsoft bends on OpenDocument  Loverock Davidson | 07/06/06
We reached the tipping point where MS had more to gain by supporting ODF  DonnieBoy | 07/06/06
Seems the only one squiriming is you...  Confused by religion | 07/06/06
one could say...  OliverSeal | 07/06/06
Squirming to find a reason to b*tch is more like it  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/06/06
Compete on Merit and Lowers Price  TripleII | 07/06/06
Merit and Price  Loverock Davidson | 07/06/06
Incorrect Assumption  TripleII | 07/06/06
Well...  zkiwi | 07/06/06
HA HA HA!  Linux Geek | 07/06/06
Microsoft is keeping its word  dragosani | 07/06/06
Maybe not a complete reversal, but they are bending. They are covering  DonnieBoy | 07/06/06
Well, given other plugins available, MS wants to try and control this at  DonnieBoy | 07/06/06
But at least it's BSD licensed  Michael Kelly | 07/06/06
HAHAHAHAHA. This is Great!  John Zern | 07/06/06
You need to read the ODF license, it is basically implementable by all,  DonnieBoy | 07/07/06
They should let the Open source community ...  Jay E Court | 07/06/06
What part of  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/06/06
So what is stopping you?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/06/06
The companies that are asking for it just...  Jay E Court | 07/06/06
And, that was Microsofts problem, they did not want to give customers an  DonnieBoy | 07/06/06
Actually, it's, fun for us to watch DB Squirm!  John Zern | 07/06/06
Yes, they're blameable  Boot_Agnostic | 07/10/06
The FUD has been turned off  mighetto | 07/06/06
Why OSS developers ignore OpenOffice  OhMyGosh | 07/06/06
Poison pill ... ?  spamagnet | 07/06/06
Pure poison  OhMyGosh | 07/06/06
Irrevocable  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/06/06
License already guarantees  spamagnet | 07/07/06
Wow. Talk about FUD  John Zern | 07/06/06
Just be glad...  rapson | 07/06/06
Notice that Microsoft will also be working arround the clock to create any  DonnieBoy | 07/06/06
My gawd, do you ever do anything but while like  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/06/06
No_Ax_to_Grind - Your not that blind, or are you! NT  raycote | 07/06/06
Microsoft and ODF ... get the facts  whisperycat | 07/06/06
So long as they buy Office...  Anton Philidor | 07/06/06
could go both ways...  Monkey_MCSE | 07/06/06
This article is about an Office plug-in...  Anton Philidor | 07/06/06
and your point being?  Monkey_MCSE | 07/06/06
The basic XML file format is NOT rocket science.  DonnieBoy | 07/06/06
Not FUD.  Anton Philidor | 07/06/06
The argument for ODF is long-term accessibility.  Zogg | 07/06/06
If one wished to open a format...  Anton Philidor | 07/06/06
Quite sure you are wrong here  captmiddy | 07/06/06
Be ironic...  Anton Philidor | 07/06/06
There is the "small" matter of Belgium, too.  Zogg | 07/06/06
They already have  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/06/06
I'm taking Microsoft at the company's word...  Anton Philidor | 07/06/06
What's the GUI to do with it?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/06/06
all about money  corticus | 07/06/06
This will insure a smooth transition ...  George Mitchell | 07/06/06
... from past to current versions of Office ...  Anton Philidor | 07/06/06
And you are right too!  George Mitchell | 07/06/06
Business decision  bluedog52 | 07/06/06
Twist would be a better term than bend.  Reverend MacFellow | 07/06/06
Good!  John L. Ries | 07/06/06
Without the invisible hand  jsjag1 | 07/06/06
Invisible Hand  John L. Ries | 07/06/06
No argument here.  jsjag1 | 07/06/06
How?  LittleGuy | 07/06/06
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish - Is this the first step?  Plain Logic | 07/06/06
100:1 odds it is  Colonel Panijk | 07/11/06
let me get this straight - xoxoxoxoxo  not of this world | 07/06/06
"homogeneity"  CobraA1 | 07/07/06
I have to give the MS guys some credit (hold your flames),....  yogeee | 07/10/06
This is news?  Master Guru | 12/05/06

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