Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Feb 2008 21:51 UTC, submitted by Xaero_Vincent
Microsoft rolled out its big guns, including CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, to underscore its commitment to the set of new interoperability principles announced Feb. 21 that are designed to increase the openness of its high-volume products and drive greater interoperability. In fact, Microsoft's long-term success depends on its ability to deliver a software and services platform that is open and flexible and provides customers and developers with choice, Ballmer said during a media teleconference. The EU is skeptical on Microsoft's pledges, according to Ars.
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RE[3]: Interoperability - Linux in the cloud
by lemur2 on Sun 24th Feb 2008 10:55
in reply to "RE[2]: Interoperability - Linux in the cloud"
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"The "other side" has such a huge head start in interoperability (especially cross-platform inter-operable data exchange) that Microsoft is miles behind.
Dude, do yourself a favor and read more objective news sources than linuxtoday.com. You're only getting one side of the story -- and a very slanted side, at that. Today's data center is a big amalgam of differing software and hardware architectures -- and there isn't going to be a single side that emerges victorious here. IT managers have given MS notice that they expect the company to provide better interoperability support and, clearly, they're responding to that input. Perhaps, in your mind, you'd like to pretend that MS is going down in flames, but you're deluding yourself, if you think that "the other side" has all of the pieces necessary to interop with all of Microsoft's many corporate assets. "
Microsoft's "assets" are all concentrated in the desktop ... Microsoft are a distinct also-ran anywhere else.
Vista ... Microsoft's latest effort on the desktop ... is a bloated stinker.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/02/23/183219.shtml
Despite their doublespeak marketing claims, Microsoft are not responding to demands from their customers for interoperability, nor do they offer their customers any effective choice.
Where is Microsoft's offer of choice in Office document formats for their customers?
Where is Microsoft's support for anything other than Windows on x86? In lumping all their eggs in the Vista basket, where is Microsoft's decent support for anything low end, ultraportable, low power and low cost?
Where is Microsoft's interoperability when Microsoft's opposition all offer the elegant, unencumbered OpenDocument format ... which Microsoft's platform STILL cannot properly interoperate with?
Microsoft trying to get other parties to support Microsoft's proprietary formats ... while still mumbling about patents and suing under their breath ... is not interoperability. It is just misdirection, pure and simple. The market is awake to this.
Edited 2008-02-24 11:01 UTC
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Dude, do yourself a favor and read more objective news sources than linuxtoday.com. You're only getting one side of the story -- and a very slanted side, at that. Today's data center is a big amalgam of differing software and hardware architectures -- and there isn't going to be a single side that emerges victorious here. IT managers have given MS notice that they expect the company to provide better interoperability support and, clearly, they're responding to that input. Perhaps, in your mind, you'd like to pretend that MS is going down in flames, but you're deluding yourself, if you think that "the other side" has all of the pieces necessary to interop with all of Microsoft's many corporate assets.