Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Confirm Elop Speaks With His Old Colleagues at Microsoft
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2011-02-10 20:50:46 UTC
- Modified: 2011-02-10 20:50:46 UTC
Summary: Further confirmation that Nokia has something cooking with the abusive monopolist Elop (Nokia's CEO) recently came from; other timely reminders of the impact of former Microsoft staff
YESTERDAY we wrote a difficult post about what the sociopaths from Microsoft appear to be doing to MeeGo. We included a lot of links there, so we'll spare repetitions. Some sceptics used to accuse Techrights of theorising exactly all that, even months before it happened. As in many cases, we were actually right and Elop's entryism role seems to be further validated by large publications (corporate press) right now.
This is just the unfortunate impact of Microsoft executives leaving the companies in droves, moving from a position of leadership in one division to controlling entire outside companies like VMware, Juniper, or Nokia. Here is a
new article about Microsoft's many other departures: [
via]
Microsoft has seen key people abandoning positions across the board—from high, C-level executives to middle managers to evangelists and strategic engineers and architects. Throughout 2010, there were several key departures, and the brain drain spilled over into this year, with some big names leaving in January.
Recently we showed that the OOXML outage in Australia [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6] involved someone in government who had worked with Microsoft. Now that there's some lip service thrown out there as "damage control" (about "open source"), Microsoft carries on playing along as
recently covered by
ITNews and
now by ZDNet Australia. The problem with this government is that its people have vested interests involving Microsoft, so no wonder it favours OOXML, which is not a real standard. And speaking of OOXML apologists, see
what Bruce Byfield has to say.
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2011-02-10 23:53:50
The problem with that line of reasoning is that none of it is true. Word Perfect was dominant in the early 90's and technically superior. At that time, Microsoft was just beginning their political push to force Microsoft Office on schools, governments and other influential users. They had about as many users as OOXML does today. The bribes and corruption were about the same but the set of lies was different, they pushed "cost". The change was disruptive, costly and fought everywhere it happened.
Byfield presents the ODF side incompletely and with similar half backed logic to conclude that OOXML is some kind of convenience factor. OOXML is not convenient to anyone. It's something that requires the user to go out and buy a $400 program, while ODF can be satisfied with a free download. This is why no one is using OOXML, not even Microsoft Office users. Every time they send something out, they get a slew of letters from people who have not spent lots of money on the new Office and they quickly learn not to offend people by using other formats. OOXML "filters" from Novell are defective by design, which is what the documents Groklaw dug up prove. Some features were just not going to be supported and that was part of the contract. Including these broken filters in Libre Office only sets people up for frustration and patent attacks. Developers are bright enough to know that and their protest is good news.
Microsoft will go bankrupt before OOXML is a real problem. Developers should ignore it and distros should especially ignore code from Novell.
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-11 12:29:10
dyfet
2011-02-11 12:21:27
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2011-02-11 12:26:05