Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 21st Nov 2005 23:51 UTC
Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats. Update by AS: For the curious, here's a sample Office 12 file and a sample XPS file. (Note: Right click > Save As..., we're not configured to serve these files just yet.)
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Member since:2005-07-06
Those 99.9%, the idiots, are the ones you are not trying to convince, not us. Just about everyone here probably has their mind made up, and if they do change it, it won't be because of anything said here.
Are some consumers idiots? Yes. Doesn't mean it's all peachy keen for you to go around calling them all idiots because they aren't in line with your thinking.
Member since:2005-06-29
I was very definite that I'm calling them idiots because they're uninformed.
It has nothing to do with agreeing with me. Did you notice how I said people reading this aren't idiots, because they're getting informed. I bet more than half of them disagree with me..
Don't put words in my mouth.
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2005-06-29
I'm not stupid, I'm well aware of the methods of sugar coating things so that it seems unoffensive and rosy.
I didn't think I needed to put on airs here, but maybe I do?
Anyway, I'm not really mad, just attempting to portray some emotion in the comment. People who read these comments sections are not the sort of people I'd consider ill-informed on this subject; and so I'd not refer to them as an "idiot" when it comes to this. And I think they're all aware I'm not talking about them in that comment, I'm talking about the other 99.9% of consumers.