Comments on: Microsoft’s War Against Real (Impartial) Standards (Updated) http://techrights.org/2007/07/02/war-against-standards/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Zaine Ridling http://techrights.org/2007/07/02/war-against-standards/comment-page-1/#comment-1134 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:47:44 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/07/02/war-against-standards/#comment-1134 Man, you’re right about the money part. And I’m stunned by the sheer amount of politics and lobbying Microsoft is doing in order to get MS-OOXML adopted. It’s really too bad because anyone or any business that gets stuck with MS-OOXML documents will be stuck with them. I don’t think Microsoft is committed to MS-OOXML long-term, and you won’t see other software suites and word processors adopt it as a native file format — it’s just too monstrous. I dealt with some of these issues when I reviewed Word 2007 over at DonationCoder.com:

http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/WordProcs/

Meanwhile, I’ll stick with ODF and enjoy its growing implementation, and I’ll continue to evangelize it to everyone I meet.

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