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Posted in Formats, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument at 4:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Watch these charts and have a glance at Andy’s forecast. Opposition to OOXML — motivated by freedom and consumers’ benefit — may have just earned some bragging rights for being victorious, but it’s too early to say anything with enough certainty.
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“…it’s too early to say anything with enough certainty”Who wouldn’t love to trust these analyses? Knowing Microsoft’s ethics, however, they might pull something out of their sleeve at the 90th minute. Remember Massachusetts? Andy saw it being bullied to the ground by the Microsoft Money Machine(R) even after it had found liberty (Massachusetts chose ODF).
One protester in Digg has just appeared out of the blue. He or she keeps posting the same message over and over again very aggressively and stubbornly. It’s worth quoting here because that person really wishes to be heard.
Win or lose, Microsoft’s manipulation of the ISO standards process has opened eyes and drawn attention at a level they could never have imagined. Hopefully pressure from not just standards bodies, but (even more importantly) business managers and individual users who are completely fed up with having their data locked into formats that only one vendor can properly read and write will finally free us all of this insane inability to truly take our files to whatever company has the best value software, not the one we have to live with because we’re stuck with them.
It’s OUR data Microsoft! Not YOURS! Just because you can get some country like Equatorial Kundu to upgrade from “Observer” to “Participating” status 15 minutes before the ISO votes and stuff the ballot box we’re not going to give up control of our “data destiny” to you! I can’t tell you how much I miss the old Microsoft. The one that used to be so confident that their products were better than Lotus, or WordPerfect, or whatever that they knew they’d win in the market on FEATURES alone! Now you’re just a shivering shadow of your former self, depending on “data lock-in” to maintain market share, not real innovation. Don’t stoop to these pathetic manipulative methods. Return to Greatness Microsoft!
Update: is it all over for OOXML (for now)?
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