Hello André, André Wyrwa a écrit : > Hi, > >>> I like how it's a bilateral movement (Microsoft adopts the standard, >>> OpenDocument foundation and OOo show their willingness to adopt the >>> standards to cover more needs). >>> >>> >> I'm not sure to see what you mean, Andre. >> > > Well, please, don't consider me educated, but one of the linked articles > as well as the OOo press release said something about revision of the > standard, which I got the notion of in the past that it would be an > argument for MS or not (be it pseudo or not). > Ah, I see. But then this has to do with the OASIS consortium Technical Committee developing the upcoming versions of the ODF. It's rather complex and difficult, so let's not get bothered by this in this hot summer evening :-) ... > >>> Here we go...the future is blue. Damn, i'll have to get used to that >>> gradient after all. ;-) >>> >>> >> Not that fast, not that fast. Do you really think MS is on its way to >> use ODF? I don't think so. There is some trick here, and in any way MS >> is not please to even let its users adopt ODF. Let's see what the future >> will bring. But imho, we should be more alert than never... >> > > Sorry for being enthusiastic. ;-) > > Hmm...Microsoft supports an open-source project to write a ODF-plugin > for MS-office. That's what it is, right? So ODF is not MS-native, in > fact far away from it - it's a downlaodable plugin. > > Ms will surely further promote it's Open XML behind the scenes, which is > a bit easier now, that it also "embraced" ODF. > > So, yes, there's not too big news. > > But then again, in fact there is...because what i read in an article a > while ago about that microsoft has a choice between beeing stubborn or > adopting to the circumstances has actually seen the adopting choice now. > It comes down to that MS is smart enought to see that their intentions > didn't get through and that they have to adopt to the market demands in > some way to keep going on. > I think we should put it in a different way. Sure enough, there is pressure on MS. So MS is looking like they're acting gracefully, but behind the scenes something else is going on.For example, they could mess up the plugin itself, a tool which many experts claim that it is almost impossible to develop. > This is not an anti-microsoft success, but it is a pro-ODF success > (although a bit limited) and even an OOo success. And it's a success for > reasonable things above private agenda things. > > Isn't it? > > Seriously, i might be naive, here. > No, you're not, but keep in mind something: MS has its own corporate strategy. And they may well want to break the momentum behind ODF just as they tried to do with html. So I'm not more informed than you on this, but as I said, keep an eye, and the good one...
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