Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Oct 2005 11:25 UTC, submitted by Andrew Updegrove
More handbrake turns concerning ODF. In an official statement, Microsoft has said it will not support OpenDocument in Office 12: ""We have no plans to directly support the OpenDocument format at this time." This contradicts reports from yesterday. Andy Updegrove, OASIS' legal counsel, responds, once again. Really, there's no need to turn on your TV to watch soap operas.
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Member since:"2. Using open standard may not prevent Microsoft from dominating the market."
The point of OpenDocument is not to take some market from Microsoft. The main point is to have an open document format that can be used openly and freely (as in freedom) through many programs, from different companies, without being locked in with one vendor.
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There was a similar situation 10 years ago when microsoft refused to use the "internet" and tried to push its own (propertiary) "Microsoft Network" instead (in Win95 AFAIR)
The end of the game was that MS switched to HTML after a while, created Internet Explorer and today dominate the browser market.
Ofcourse there are some major differences: MS word is already the dominating word processor while 1995 the question of the "dominating" network infrastructure was still open (anyone remembers Compuserve? BTX? AOL?...)
But the lessons one can learn from that are:
1. MS will switch their direction if the pressure is high enough
2. Using open standard may not prevent Microsoft from dominating the market.