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Re: [News] Microsoft's OOXML Forcefeeding Strategy Includes Deprecation

* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Microsoft Cuts Off Access To Old Documents
>
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>| With the blink of a 117 MB download (and an even lengthier installation 
>| process), Office users will no longer be able to open files in 24 older file 
>| formats. That means users ? citizens, government employees, small business 
>| owners, etc. ? will not be able to open their own documents saved in file 
>| formats used by Corel (Wordperfect), Lotus, and most versions of MS Office 
>| products before 2000. Instead, users will see the not-so-user-friendly 
>| statement below:      
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> http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/microsoft-cuts-off-access-to-old-documents.html

Is this what the customers /really/ want?

   When pressed for answers regarding this change, Microsoft eventually
   admitted that their action was in response to concerns with their
   parsing of Office 2003 code that presented a risk, but only after
   they suggested the move was in response to security concerns with the
   files themselves. Microsoft continues, in our view, to erroneously
   maintain that files in these formats are creating a "security
   risk."

   Really, what is at risk is Microsoft's ability to sell more
   products, namely their new Office 2007 which will lock users into
   their new file format, Office Open XML (OOXML), which despite its
   name, is not open. What is at risk is Microsoft's own coding
   errors.

> Microsoft Breaks the [ODF] Plugins
>
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>| Sun is having trouble because Microsoft is breaking interoperability 
>| deliberately through hi-jinks with the Dynamic-Link Libraries ("dll") in  
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> http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/microsoft-break.html

We are fools, who allow an untrustworthy company to handle, nay,
control! our documents.  Just ask Scott McNealy.

-- 
Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age.
   -- Scott McNealy, of Sun Microsystems

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