Another great commentary from Walt Hucks. This time his target is the over the top self serving statements from Microsoft about consumers wanting "competition" between standards. I was a loser in the BetaMAX wars. At least SONY had an edge in those wars of claiming a somewhat, although leglible, advantge in video fidleity. Microsoft OOXML has no such advantage over ODF. None whatsoever.
Walt once again exposes Microsoft as the company you can count on to treat customers as mindless idiots. Given the choice, customers would choose ODF over OOXML hands down, time after tiem, every time. But they are not given "the choice". Mcirosoft spends a lot of spin cycles complaining and whining about IBM and others not providing native support for OOXML. Incredibly, they do this while announcing loudly that they have no intention of ever supporting ODF nativiely in their own applications? What's u with that? Leveraging the monopoly. That's what.
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Walt once again exposes Microsoft as the company you can count on to treat customers as mindless idiots. Given the choice, customers would choose ODF over OOXML hands down, time after tiem, every time. But they are not given "the choice". Mcirosoft spends a lot of spin cycles complaining and whining about IBM and others not providing native support for OOXML. Incredibly, they do this while announcing loudly that they have no intention of ever supporting ODF nativiely in their own applications? What's u with that? Leveraging the monopoly. That's what.
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