All Annotations of The Fall of Microsoft Office[Preview]

saved byGary Edwards on 2008-05-29

• On the same day that the state of New York published a report supporting open formats for electronic documents, mighty Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) said that it would support the open-source ODF format in Office 2007. Redmond's own Open Office XML specification may be heading for the great Recycle Bin in the sky, never to come back.
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  • on 2008-05-29 Garyedwards
    UH? When is this going to happen? How is it that OpenOffice, Google Docs and Zoho enter an existing MSOffice business workgroup? Where are the conversions of scripts, macros, OLE, security settings, data and media bindings? That's right. They are no where to be found. Which means that these application interlopers have no means of entering an existing MSOffice anchored workgroup, workflow or business process.
    
• The company's biggest revenue generator may be a shadow of its former self in a few years. I just hope that Microsoft has some alternative business prospects on tap
  • on 2008-05-29 Garyedwards
    Of course they have an alternative: the MS Web-Stack centered by Exchange/SharePoint/MS SQL Server. The whole idea is to migrate existing MSOffice anchored business processes to this new Web-Stack before interloper can figure out what happened. ISO approval of OOXML is the final piece to understanding this complex puzzle. Let the transition begin!