2008/5/22 Jason Cipriani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:22 PM, rob clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is Microsoft's new "support"of ODF 1.1 an attempt to cause problems for > > OpenOffice 3.0 in September as that will support ODF 1.2? > > > > Conspiracy theory it maybe or simply at attempt to slow down the take-up > of > > OOo 3.0? > > In my little circle it's the other way around. The longer MSOffice > goes without supporting ODF, the longer I can tell people "here is an > ODF document, you'll have to go grab OpenOffice to edit it, it's > really easy to set up"... I think they're just realizing "hey -- > OpenOffice -and- GoogleDocs both support this, *maybe* it's time to > get up to speed here". I can't imagine any harm that could come to > anything except MSOffice if they didn't start supporting ODF like > everybody else so... that doesn't really seem like the makings of any > conspiracy theory to me! > > Jason >
To my mind, the really fascinating thing about this Microsoft announcement - aside from the fact that it comes, as I have mentioned earlier, just after MS decided to appeal an EC fine and that, as Jason points out above, it doesn't refer to ODF 1.2 - is that the proposed update to MS Office 2007 will not support Microsoft's own OOXML «standard» - the one that the firm bribed, cajoled, and coerced into acceptance by ISO ( http://tinyurl.com/6xdk4d) ! The deviousness of these chaps takes deception to unprecedented levels.... Henri
