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Microsoft is Struggling to Maintain Industry 'Standards'

The world has moved on and beyond the "desktop"

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Summary: With Microsoft's common carrier and browser share down considerably Microsoft finds itself increasingly irrelevant and it tries subversive means of making another comeback

According to this new article from IDG, Forrester has no faith in Vista 8, despite Forrester 'research' (for a fee, for agenda) being Microsoft-funded for years. To quote: "Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft’s operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in the company’s history, will not achieve enough adoption in enterprises to be considered a standard, according to Forrester Research."



"Even the Microsoft boosters have ceased trying to lie about Vista 8 sales."Britain's leading Microsoft booster can offer damage control no more. He wrote: "Those who upgraded to Windows 8 aren't the only ones unhappy with the new touch-driven operating system - Wall Street is too. Just don't expect any of the criticism hurled at Steve "Teflon" Ballmer, Microsoft's shy and retiring boss, to stick.

"The chief executive is under fire from money men who responded to tech reporters trolling the markets for blistering opinions on Microsoft's leadership, given that: PC sales are crashing; Windows Phone 8 smartmobes are in fourth place in the US mobile OS market; and Windows 8 Surface gadgets are barely on the worldwide tablet sales charts. The new touchscreen-friendly Windows has not been that well received, resulting the software giant undoing decisions made at the highest levels."

Here are his closing words: "Arguably, Ballmer's pain has been postponed. Microsoft's Windows growth isn't coming from new Windows 8 PCs sold to consumers, rather sales of Windows 8 licences to distribution channel partners and volume customers. Actual Windows 8 machines haven't moved in any significant numbers. The PCs that are selling run Windows 7."

Even the Microsoft boosters have ceased trying to lie about Vista 8 sales. Android already became far more of an industry standard than Vista 7 and 8 combined. Android will soon celebrate one billion activations. It sometimes seems like Google has helped harm many Microsoft de facto standards, including multimedia ones, not just operating systems. The hardest part to knock down is Microsoft's most profitable monopoly, Office, which relies solely on format-induced lock-in.

According to this piece from the pro-Microsoft 'news' site ReadWrite, "Google is Prepping a Sneak Attack on Microsoft Office" and the author says: "Google sources also say they're confident that Microsoft won't be able to block QuickOffice with licensing issues or other legal threats. Eventually, these individuals say, QuickOffice will become the foundation of Google Apps, although that's still a ways off."

"The hardest part to knock down is Microsoft’s most profitable monopoly, Office, which relies solely on format-induced lock-in."Pamela Jones responded as follows: "I hope Google doesn't make the mistake of thinking that building your business on a Microsoft "standard" format that includes a right for Microsoft to add proprietary doodads is going to work out for them. And if they don't include ODF, Microsoft will be correct that then Microsoft will be more open than Google in that one area. On the other hand, if the lawyers are in this decision because Microsoft is a litigation bully and competes in courtrooms instead of in the marketplace, who knows what has gone into the decision? Dealing with Microsoft is a headache, and it causes others endless troubles for absolutely no good reason with folks ending up doing things to protect themselves from attack that they'd otherwise never have done.

"And speaking of openness, what's with ReadWrite's new policy of making their articles impossible to copy and paste? This is the Internet, and there are principles and a culture, and they are violating them."

Recall how Microsoft resorted to corruption for OOXML, which Google, for some reason, no longer opposes as fiercely as it used to, partly due to Microsoft's pollution in formats space.

"Google has made good progress on weaning Microsoft lock-in, but the job is not done yet."According to a post about OGC, Microsoft is now trying to 'pull an OOXML' again, this time not against video chats through Web standards, namely WebRTC (a threat to Skype) but against another common standard. As one person put it: "Most (all?) current OGC web service standards to date have an Open Source reference implementation, which was often (always?) part funded by OGC testbeds, and open source implementations were tested against proprietary implementations during OGC testbeds. As far as I'm aware, there has been very little up-take from the Open Source community of the "GeoServices REST API", and I'm unaware of any testing of non-ESRI applications during OGC testbeds. (Someone may be able to correct me here)."

Here is the source. Pamela Jones, who fought against OOXML, calls this "Another OOXML," noting that it is "a "standard" proposed when there is already a FOSS overlapping standard in use. ESRI lists Microsoft, Oracle, Novell and SAP as partners."

In order to starve Microsoft, a longtime abusive monopolist and patent racketeer (Microsoft tries to extract money from devices using FAT patents in exFAT), one needs to erode its lock-in. Google has made good progress on weaning Microsoft lock-in, but the job is not done yet.

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