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Only Those Retiring Follow the old Microsoft-Way Today
It is about now. Microsoft may no longer be a criminal organization. The new management comes from IT and they have track records involving the industry-standardization needed for cooperation. The Novell-Microsoft marriage was the turning point. Hell froze over that day in November of 2006.

Just to review. Novell once owned Corel and they challenged Microsoft with an office suite product that dominated the legal and medical industries in the USA until recently owing to illegal use of monopoly power. Today the former president of Corel heads Microsoft's Share point operation and Novell has been compensated for the past illegal Corel product disparagement activities of Microsoft.

Corel's products have always used the superset to XML (SGML). This is the reason that older versions of WordPerfect could, unlike Word, read files produced by new versions of the software. Corel's spreadsheet could be operated in Lotus mode. Today Microsoft promotes Ray Ozzie as a Microsoft Executive who was so responsible for Lotus products at IBM when he was there. Today we look forward to removal of the Gates family - which brought the world Jack Abramoff - from Microsoft and the removal of the Gates Family legals (Brad Smith and Bill Neukom) from polite society.

It is only momentum that allows things like this draft proposal.

Those who are short and about to retire continue with the old Microsoft-way which is not working now owing to industry-standardization and Web 2.0. Their retirements will come sooner than they expected. Look at what Apple has done.

The ecosystem garden-of-eden for the Microsoft-loyal is gone. The Apple has been bitten. It is now hell on earth for them.

Frank L. Mighetto CCP
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Microsoft Office 2003?  mighetto | 07/02/07
They might have done this just to get rid of the circus of MS lobbyists for  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
Or they may have done this to  John Zern | 07/02/07
A government like this really only needs very simple document editing, and  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
So now *you* decide what everyone needs?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/02/07
No, he does not have enough money...  Solid Water | 07/02/07
Extortion  mighetto | 07/03/07
Mighetto...  BFD | 07/03/07
BFD, corporations have no right to interfere in government  stevey_d | 07/04/07
Chalk up another area of expertise for Donnie  xuniL_z | 07/04/07
This is all about money (MS spent for lobbying)...  Solid Water | 07/02/07
There are a lot of problems with ooXML other than the issue if it is open  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
Only Those Retiring Follow the old Microsoft-Way Today  mighetto | 07/03/07
Microsoft document formats gain Mass. favor  Loverock Davidson | 07/02/07
They did think before they acted  Michael Kelly | 07/02/07
Well, they DID get what they wanted. They got MS to open their document  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
It's always been that way Donnie.  xuniL_z | 07/04/07
Say What! - That a joke right? Or have you got your head on backwards? - NT  raycote | 07/03/07
He's just your below average troll...  BanjoPaterson | 07/03/07
A joke?  xuniL_z | 07/04/07
Good news for everyone  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/02/07
If you consider added expense for the taxpayers of Mass, then I guess this  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
Exactly  markbn | 07/02/07
As you point out, there MUST be a lot of money to be gained or lost based  DonnieBoy | 07/02/07
RE  markbn | 07/02/07
Yeah!  Cardinal_Bill | 07/02/07
They too can CHOOSE  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/02/07
What about money in their pockets (remember IPhone customers)?  Solid Water | 07/02/07
Money spent is about value  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/03/07
yeah their format was so good, MSFT didn't have to resort to underhandednes  stevey_d | 07/03/07
The purpose for open  bjbrock | 07/02/07
Not as insignificant as your logic! -NT  raycote | 07/03/07
Most importantly, you weren't involved in the decision  Boot_Agnostic | 07/03/07
This is an outstanding achievement for MS.  DemonX | 07/03/07
Way back when I said MS would cave to MA-ITD...  John Le'Brecage | 07/03/07
Hmmm...  Henry Miller | 07/03/07
Wow and they didn't have to use any underhand tactics.... oh  stevey_d | 07/03/07

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