On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:13:31 -0500 Came this utterance formulated by Dan Presley to my mailbox:
> I just read the story on the Reuters news service. The ban affects > Word 2003 and 2007 only. With Office 2010 coming out soon, > Micro$oft's pocketbook won't be hardly affected. This version does > not use any of the patented software that led to the lawsuit and ban. What are you smoking? First of all there is no patented software which led to the ban. The patent appies to a technique used in .docx save format. Microsoft will surely stick to the XML .docx and .docm formats. It is one that they poured millions into, to push through as an ISO standard in competition to the ODF format. The patent applies to a particular way Word applies a technology called custom XML to the document. In practise it means that the content (words contained in the document) are stored separately to the tags. The tags are listed with an index number which relates to the location in the content where they apply. something like: *CONTENT* HiHow are you? *TAGS* <h1> - 1 </h1> - 3 <p> - 3 </p> - 15 The i4i patent describes how the tags can be kept in a separate template as well. http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3712 http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5787449.PN.&OS=PN/5787449&RS=PN/5787449 The above link will probably wrap. If need be go here and type in 5787449: http://patft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm AFAICT this technique is not used within OO.o. To be honest, i did not know it was used in Word either. > Even if people will slowly upgrade to Win 7, the same can't be said > for the new version of Office. Besides M$ already has almost all the > money they'll make from Office 2003 and 2007. Negate the smoking comment, you must be mainlining. This is serious bulls*!t. Office income has been dropping slightly but not as much as windows sales. Office has been reported as supporting Windows - mainly due to really bad Vista performance from the start! http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2009-07-23-microsoft_N.htm http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY09/earn_rel_q4_09.mspx#Balance > The only thing that hurts the Lords of Redmond is the award and that > is only a drop in their gargantuan bucket. I really see no easing in > Microsoft's market dominance. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
