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● 02.06.08

●● Quote of the Day: “Analysts? Gotta Love Them.”

Posted in Deception, IBM, Microsoft, Open XML, Quote at 5:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

This one come from The Register:

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On his blog Rough Type, tech-minded author, speaker, and friend of The Reg Nicholas Carr says that he opened up his email client to find a note trumpeting the latest reports from Forrester Research. One of these reports – issued on January 31, a day before Microsoft announced its bid for Yahoo! – was called “Microsoft Will Make Small Acquisitions: Its Size, Visibility To Antitrust Bodies, And Strategy Rule Out Big Deals.”

Analysts? Gotta love them.

We have had our fair share of criticisms of analysts, e.g. [1, 2, 3].

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There’s a close second for “Quote of the Day”. It’s the comment “Microsoft OOXML == Dog Stool”.

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Microsoft’s capacity for deceit is unbelievable – OOXML is not a standard, it is an incomplete and disorganized collection of ancient .DOC errors and incompatible exceptions that will NEVER be fully utilized, especially not by MS OFFICE 2007 (Microsoft Big Lie number 1,265,487.0).

Microsoft’s attempt to fast-track OOXML was foiled when people actually started to examine the 6000+ pages of often contradictory declarations and references to external undocumented proprietary blobs (almost certainly covered by MS patents).

Now some Microsoft mis-representative is whining “it’s all IBM’s fault” when they get caught and have to explain their bad behavior (attempting to coerce ISO fast-track adoption with bribes and stacking the deck with Microsoft ‘Partners’).

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More about Microsoft’s insults against IBM here. █

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