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Israel Gives Microsoft The Boot | |
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| Time: 11:20 EST/16:20 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim | ||
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In a bold assertion of independence, Israel has thrown the full weight of its antitrust legislation at Microsoft. The Israeli Ministry of Commerce has suspended all governmental contracts with Microsoft, and indicated that the ban will last throughout 2004. The de facto suspension means no upgrades for the duration, at a time when Microsoft is looking to roll out its Office 2003 upgrade; and the Ministry is said to be examining OpenOffice as an alternative. | ||
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| #1 By 2960 (156.80.64.137) at 10/15/2003 1:42:20 PM |
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Um, wow...
TL |
| #2 By 415 (199.8.71.121) at 10/15/2003 2:47:09 PM |
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They obviously are not considering the financial impact on the Israeli IT industry and the entire Israeli economy for that matter.
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| #3 By 6253 (12.237.219.240) at 10/15/2003 4:06:30 PM |
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This is actually good. Until an organization of substantial size actually attempts to get rid of all Microsoft software and can document the hardships they experienced before going back, the Open Source community can fabricate any hyphotheses they like. In the real world, there are always more factors than there may seem. I personally uninstalled Microsoft Office and used OpenOffice exclusively for a week. I had no problems opening documents from other people, but they didn't look or print quite like they should have. Other people had no problems opening documents from me, either, but they all complained about how horrible things looked.
The fact is that Open Source zealots have been complaining about the "closed" Office file formats but they've never had any problem with the file formats themselves. It's really the fact that Open Source code has never been able to render things as well as, nor has Open Source ever been able to reproduce the UI usability which makes it easy to format good-looking documents and presentations in Office. I also produced less work than I should have in a week because the UI was so primitive and complicated. You might say that it's not harder, just different, and that some learning curve time should be expected. But the Open Source people want to claim that Microsoft Office is a commodity app, that nobody uses more than a handful of core features, and those core features work the same in any competing product. By that academic theory, there would never be a learning curve. Too bad for Israel... |
| #4 By 1295 (216.84.210.100) at 10/15/2003 5:21:10 PM |
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This is just super. Now an even larger portion of the billions we funnel Israel are going to be spent elsewhere besides our economy.
Yippe. GL Israel. |
| #5 By 3339 (64.160.58.135) at 10/15/2003 5:25:46 PM |
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Mr Humpty: "Now an even larger portion of the billions we funnel Israel are going to be spent elsewhere besides our economy."
Since when is "our economy" solely represented by Microsoft? Since when is our aid of a foreign state predicated on them purchasing Microsoft products? This post was edited by sodajerk on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 at 17:59. |
| #6 By 3653 (209.149.57.116) at 10/15/2003 11:26:04 PM |
| You all missed the part where this came from The Register. Null and void until I hear it from something reputable. |
| #7 By 8062 (68.107.9.245) at 10/16/2003 12:32:25 AM |
| #7 Gott'ya all! It came from "The Register", the biggest POS on-line rag [sic] every. |
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