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This is rapidly becoming a bandwagon ...
that will drive MS to fully support ODF. And once that happens the corporate world will move with greater momentum in that direction as well. Which then will open up the door for OpenOffice, StarOffice, WordPerfect and all the rest. The ultimate winner will be the consumer as they will have the ability to move documents freely between application and OS platforms. And MS will finally simply have to submit enhancements to the ODF organization where they will in essence be made available to the industry as a whole. This whole process represents the first salvo in the battle to open the formats and it won't end with document formats. Open document formats are just the forerunner of open graphics and multimedia formats.
Posted by: George Mitchell   Posted on: 02/28/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Here is where Microsoft's legal department kicks in.  nomorems | 02/28/07
I can just hear it. But, but, it is not fair if we don't have an advantage,  DonnieBoy | 02/28/07
That's pretty much it...  shawkins | 03/01/07
This will make Billy and Stevie squirm some more.  DonnieBoy | 02/28/07
The only one I see squirming  John Zern | 03/01/07
But proprietary standards ARE good.....  shawkins | 03/01/07
Another blow to the mighty M$ empire  DarthRidiculous | 02/28/07
MS t o add more ODF support and waive dollars  Boot_Agnostic | 02/28/07
This is rapidly becoming a bandwagon ...  George Mitchell | 02/28/07
anti trust laws  arash_r@... | 03/01/07
Your places of work went with one program over another  Boot_Agnostic | 03/01/07
References?  yyuko@... | 03/01/07
One Stop Info Store  whisperycat | 03/01/07
This is an appropriate procedure...  Anton Philidor | 03/01/07
Re: California may adopt OpenDocument  none none | 03/01/07
Okay cable TV is like software.  Anton Philidor | 03/01/07
Cable TV IS like software ...  George Mitchell | 03/01/07
"... forced to pay for [Microsoft Office as] a competing product..."?  Anton Philidor | 03/01/07
Re: Okay cable TV is like software.  none none | 03/01/07
Your hypothetical premise.  Anton Philidor | 03/01/07
Re: Your hypothetical premise.  none none | 03/01/07
MA tried and got shot down. Good luck, CA  ejhonda | 03/01/07
When and how...  Logics | 03/01/07
Was it shot down or sent back for more review  Boot_Agnostic | 03/01/07
Thats right! CA and every other state should cower before the bully!  George Mitchell | 03/01/07
Sounds like Sun, Oracle, Real and AOL  Boot_Agnostic | 03/01/07
Its already happening in places that are unoticed ...  George Mitchell | 03/01/07

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