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● 05.14.09

●● Microsoft’s Sabotage of Interoperability Pays Off

Posted in Formats, Free/Libre Software, Interoperability, Microsoft, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, SUN at 3:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Case study on the effect of incompatible formatting

FOR some context, Microsoft has been neglecting at best — and deliberately harming at worse — ODF. This subject has been explored already, e.g. in:

Microsoft’s ODF ‘Support’ is a ScamEmbrace, Extend, and Microsoft Wants to Toss IBM Out of ODFMicrosoft Fragments ODF While Trying to Paint it as “IBM Thing”ODF Alliance to Denounce Microsoft This Week?On Microsoft’s Software Patents and ODF FragmentationMicrosoft ‘Patents’ ODF Whilst Also Harming ItReader’s Article: The Microsoft Patent Threat to ODF

Now comes this poster, who explains how Microsoft’s behaviour is being used to stifle migrations to GNU/Linux. That’s exactly what Microsoft would want.

=> ↺ this poster

We did troubleshooting of so many things to make the switch smoother for our users, but, regardless of that, our enemy, was somewhat invincible, and nothing seems to overcome such an obstacle, but don’t get me wrong, this enemy is cheating, and this is giving it the edge required to defeat us.

The OpenOffice.org team advertised Sun’s ODF plug-in just about a day ago. It’s better than Microsoft’s own support of ODF, which is MSODF.

=> ↺ advertised Sun’s ODF plug-in | MSODF

I normally don’t post my ODF Plugin news and information on GullFOSS, but so many people complain (everywhere, including in OOo mailing lists) about the bad ODF support in Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, that I thought it might be a good idea to post some information about the ODF Plugin here…

Microsoft just can’t do it right because it doesn't want to. A failure of ODF would be good for Microsoft. █

=> doesn't want to

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