On 8/11/06, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
20 years ago...20 years ago is 1986...Wordstar Era....
May be you are referring to more like just over a decade ago...Wordperfect is the official document of the US Government....
Microsoft Office started to become prevalent in 1996/7 with the release of MS Office 97. ...prior to that with MS Windows Word version 4.0/5.0 was contending with Wordperfect 5.1 and the wysiwig and windows version of wordperfect 6.0 in 1995-96.
Just to add to the discussion....there are 2 kinds of standards -- the de facto and de joure standards. Microsoft Office .doc has become the de facto due to prevalent use. De joure standards are developed by committees/organizations (like OSI, IEEE, etc..) agreeing to comply to a standard.
Problem with de joure standards is that vendors sort of add a few of their own proprietary features and claiming support for the standard, but actually messing up portability once the features are used on their system...
david t. asuncion, jr. wrote:
> Please enlighten me.
>
> What are open standards? Can you please give me an example of open
> standards and why it is open standards and examples of not open
> standards and why it isn't open so that I can understand it better?
>
100 years? That's the kind of bet a government makes whenever it
decides on a closed standard. 20 years ago WordPerfect was king of the
hill with word processing; where are they now? It is naive to think
20 years ago...20 years ago is 1986...Wordstar Era....
May be you are referring to more like just over a decade ago...Wordperfect is the official document of the US Government....
Microsoft Office started to become prevalent in 1996/7 with the release of MS Office 97. ...prior to that with MS Windows Word version 4.0/5.0 was contending with Wordperfect 5.1 and the wysiwig and windows version of wordperfect 6.0 in 1995-96.
Just to add to the discussion....there are 2 kinds of standards -- the de facto and de joure standards. Microsoft Office .doc has become the de facto due to prevalent use. De joure standards are developed by committees/organizations (like OSI, IEEE, etc..) agreeing to comply to a standard.
Problem with de joure standards is that vendors sort of add a few of their own proprietary features and claiming support for the standard, but actually messing up portability once the features are used on their system...
that the same fate will escape Microsoft and Office. Government records
have lifetimes measured in decades, and if they are held by anything
other than an open standard they risk losing them to the whims and
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