Good as well as bad news for Microsoft on the legal front. Their good news is that a judge has rejected Go Computing's claim that Microsoft used dirty tricks to keep it out of the operating system market. However, their bad news is that an EU committee ruled on Monday that Microsoft failed to comply with a landmark antitrust decision, paving the way for fines of up to 2 million euros a day, a source familiar with the situation said.
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Member since:2005-11-11
//He didn't say XML was created by Microsoft, he said "formats now exposed via OpenXML" (which I assume he means the XML office document formats). //
No, but he tried to pretend that Open XML didn't "extend" anything, which clearly it does.
//Any current product is future proof if you never want to upgrade. Like I said - create a document now in Office 97, and open it in 20 years in Office 97. Or, if you're not a complete retard, try a newer version of Office. It will still work!//
It will not work if there is no Microsoft and no Windows available to purchase from anyone, and no x86 hardware platform on which to run ancient binary-only executables, an no source code for the applications, and no open specification for all parts of the format in which data is saved.
Member since:2005-07-06
//He didn't say XML was created by Microsoft, he said "formats now exposed via OpenXML" (which I assume he means the XML office document formats). //
No, but he tried to pretend that Open XML didn't "extend" anything, which clearly it does.
Yeah, it "extends" XML, which is the whole point of XML. "Embrace and Extend" is used when you take a standard format and extend it in incompatible ways. You can't do that with a format whose reason for existing is to be extended.
//Any current product is future proof if you never want to upgrade. Like I said - create a document now in Office 97, and open it in 20 years in Office 97. Or, if you're not a complete retard, try a newer version of Office. It will still work!//
It will not work if there is no Microsoft and no Windows available to purchase from anyone, and no x86 hardware platform on which to run ancient binary-only executables, an no source code for the applications, and no open specification for all parts of the format in which data is saved.
So Mac Office just doesn't exist, eh? Neither does WordPerfect or OpenOffice, or WindowsMobile and Palm devices with applications compatible with Office, or CrossOver, etc? Some x86, some not, most not MS platforms.
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2006-07-04
a) He didn't say XML was created by Microsoft, he said "formats now exposed via OpenXML" (which I assume he means the XML office document formats).
b) Any current product is future proof if you never want to upgrade. Like I said - create a document now in Office 97, and open it in 20 years in Office 97. Or, if you're not a complete retard, try a newer version of Office. It will still work!