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  Writing history with Microsoft's Office lock-in
Time: 18:47 EST/23:47 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Bill Roach

Sometimes, very small decisions can have a very big impact on how people work in the future. So join us, on a journey into the future: a story that begins with a little fudge. In a little noticed move, Microsoft has slid on its commitment to produce open standard file formats for its Office products. By maintaining a proprietary binary format that frequently changes, Microsoft has kept the exit costs high for potential defectors. However, Microsoft has for a long touted its investment in XML as a sign of its commitment to openness.

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#1 By 61 (65.32.171.144) at 4/25/2003 8:11:38 PM
Microsoft never said that they would open up the file formats.... they said they would make an XML file format available, and they have.

This post was edited by CPUGuy on Friday, April 25, 2003 at 20:12.

#2 By 37 (66.168.16.248) at 4/25/2003 8:23:17 PM
Ahhhh...another article ridden with FUD and lies.

#3 By 7797 (64.105.197.82) at 4/25/2003 9:22:04 PM
Wow Brian_MS_MVP I could't possibly have done without you pointing out the obvious! Those damned liars how dare they.

This post was edited by tgnb on Friday, April 25, 2003 at 21:23.

#4 By 7797 (64.105.197.82) at 4/26/2003 12:01:18 AM
stubear:

"I can't seamlessly open and edit Photoshop files in other image editing apps. Sure I can open them but they lose some information in the translation."

Must be a user error.
I can open Photoshop files without loss in GIMP no problem.

Seems like stubear doesnt understand the value of "standards".


#5 By 7797 (64.105.197.82) at 4/26/2003 12:02:37 AM
parker:

"I thought Linux was against anything Microsoft does, including Office."

Well guess what, you thought WRONG!

#6 By 2332 (65.221.182.2) at 4/26/2003 3:00:10 AM
Since when was Photoshop's file format open? Didn't the writers of GIMP just reverse engineer it, just as countless have done (including me, to some extent) with the various Office file formats?

#7 By 13998 (217.122.34.74) at 4/26/2003 3:23:45 AM
It's time for some people to realise that MS is not a charity or a non-profit organisation.

#8 By 13998 (217.122.34.74) at 4/26/2003 3:48:53 AM
#13

Microsoft maintains a 90 percent plus market share. It has done so through sometimes border-line illegal tactics yet when impartial comparisons are made

If I were you I wouldn't trust the word illegal. The word illegal is something time and location based. When you are talking a world wide company like Microsoft it is a bit difficult to decide what is illegal and what is legal. Of course you may say that what she did was illegal according to the US laws. But how to come to that conclusion? Based on the courts?

#9 By 7797 (64.105.197.82) at 4/26/2003 11:16:06 AM
stubear:

"That's where you went wrong. You shouldn't tax yourself thinking. Linux sheep like you were not put on this earth to think."

You do realize it was parker who made the statement:

"I thought Linux was against anything Microsoft does, including Office."

Why you would attack him for thinking and call him a Linux sheep is beyond me as he seems to support only the MS side.

#10 By 135 (208.50.204.91) at 4/26/2003 11:35:49 AM
Once again more irrelevant discussion about Linux.

#11 By 2960 (68.100.182.5) at 4/27/2003 12:52:03 AM
"It's time for some people to realise that MS is not a charity or a non-profit organisation. "

LOL! I don't think that's a problem :)

TL

#12 By 37 (66.82.20.150) at 4/28/2003 12:09:37 PM
#3 By tgnb (118 Posts) at 4/25/2003 9:22:04 PM
Wow Brian_MS_MVP I could't possibly have done without you pointing out the obvious! Those damned liars how dare they.


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