Microsoft Trojan Horse Part Duex: System Center Operations Manager 2007 Cross
Platform Extensions and Connectors
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| After thinking for a bit, I then realize this is the exact same corporate
| strategy Microsoft has pursued with Active Directory. Release a trojan horse
| into a corporation by making an inferior, arguably broken, operating system,
| Windows, that won’t work with anything else, or follow the same standards,
| and then release a steaming pile of bandages, duck tape, glue, and well…poo,
| and make everyone authenticate against it while charging an expensive
| licensing fee.
|
| We have active bot nets that rivel NASA in pure computing power due to
| boneheaded Operating System design...
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http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/04/microsoft_trojan_horse_part_du.html
Interoperability: First Benefit Microsoft
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| The way I see it, interoperability is for Microsoft a means to an end, the
| end being competitive gains more than customer benefits. Microsoft is the
| first beneficiary of its interoperability efforts. The new management tools
| clearly show what interoperability really means to Microsoft: increasing its
| footprint in heterogenous platform environments. That's going to be most
| important in established markets like the United States, where most companies
| that need servers have them already.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/server/interoperability_first_benefit_microsoft.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
Microsoft, openness, and oxymorons
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| Let's compare this openness pledge to Microsoft's reality with Sharepoint, as
| but one example. If you want to use Microsoft's Sharepoint, you must use
| Microsoft's SQL Server, Windows, Office, IIS, Active Directory, etc. It also
| works much better with Internet Explorer, and is crippled in Firefox, Safari,
| etc.
|
| Are we to assume that Microsoft has seen the light and is now embracing
| openness as its salvation? Not likely.
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9932463-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Recent:
Interoperability for the other 90 percent of the world
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| With all the talk about interoperability rumbling around, I thought a quick
| sanity check would be in order. Vendors are fond of talking about
| interoperability, but myopia-challenged as we are, we tend to forget that
| most software is not developed by vendors. It's developed by
| so-called "customers."
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http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9929021-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
[Tim Bray:] ISO Fantasy
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| What OOXML Is · The ISO process, brutal and corrupt as it was, has been
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| covered to death by everyone. Its output, soon to be known as ISO/IEC 29500,
| differs from ECMA-376 in two ways. ¶
|
| [...]
|
| What Microsoft really wanted was that ISO stamp of approval to use as a
| marketing tool. And just like your mother told you, when they get what they
| want and have their way with you, they’re probably not gonna call you in the
| morning.
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http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/04/15/OOXML
Sinclair's Syndrome
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| For ISO, in a public relations pitch, to blithely suggest that several
| thousand page Fast Tracks are "not unusual" shows an audacious disregard for
| the truth and a lack of respect for a public that is looking for ISO to
| correct its errors, not blow smoke at them in a revisionist attempt to
| portray the DIS 29500 approval process as normal, acceptable or even
| legitimate. We should expect better from ISO and we should express
| disappointment in them when they let us down in our reasonable expectations
| of honesty. We don't expect this from Ecma. We don't expect this from
| Microsoft. But we should expect this from ISO.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/04/sinclairs-syndrome.html
Software wars
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| Allegations of committee-stuffing, the outcome of votes overridden by
| political appointees, a final decision that many involved consider tainted:
| this may sound like a discredited election in some third world country. But
| it is actually a description of an ugly fight over international technical
| standards that wrapped up this week. Microsoft came out on top, but at the
| cost of tarnishing its reputation and the credibility of an important
| back-room process that oils the wheels of many global industries.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fc9743360-01a8-11dd-a323-000077b07658.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computerworlduk.com%2Ftool
Related:
Martin Bryan: we are getting “standardization by corporation”
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| A November informative report of Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34
| WG1 highlights the fallout of the ECMA-376 fast-track process for ISO. He
| says he is 'glad to be retiring before the situation becomes impossible'
|
| [...]
|
| In what is an astonishingly outspoken report, Martin Bryan, Convenor, ISO/IEC
| JTC1/SC34 WG1 has given us insight into the total mess that Microsoft/ECMA
| have caused during their scandalous, underhand and unremitting attempts to
| get - what is a very poorly written specification {i.e. DIS 29500 aka OOXML,
| AR} - approved as an ISO standard. …
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-30107/martin-bryan:we-are-getting-standardization-by-corporation
Dysfunctional ISO - Courtesy of Microsoft
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/12/dysfunctional-iso-courtesy-of-microsoft.html
Microsoft accused of stacking ISO committee
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| In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on
| WG1, which is handling Microsoft’s application to make the Word format an ISO
| standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on
| SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1777
EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push
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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter
| Quinn was by no means unique.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252
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