__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 03 March 2007 14:10 \__
> 'Edwards charges that conversions using the ODF's daVinci and ACME 376
> systems worked fine in all beta releases of Office 2007, then broke in
> the final public version. Microsoft did this, he writes, through changes
> to OOXML, a Microsoft proprietary product built into its
> Exchange/SharePoint Hub'
>
> 'Microsoft has changed their office file format six times out of the
> last eight releases of Microsoft Office'
>
> 'The smoking gun here is that the new, proprietary XML schema was tossed
> in at the public release, that it worked with all the other Microsoft
> stuff, and it broke all the open source stuff'
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=959
It's the same ol' off-the-shelf routine...
,----[ Quote ]
| From: Bill Gates
| Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1989 9:44 AM [1998]
| To: Bob Muglia (Exchange); Jon DeVaan; Steven Sinofsky
| Cc: Paul Mariz
| Subject: Office rendering
|
| One thing we have got to change is our strategy -- allowing Office
| documents to be rendered very well by OTHER PEOPLES BROWSERS is one of the
| most destructive things we could do to the company.
|
| We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office
| documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
|
| Anything else is suicide for our platform. This is a case where Office has
| to to destroy Windows.
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