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17 Jul 07
Bryan Housecritique on MSFT's many platforms (complexity being one issue, sounds familiar)
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16 Jul 07
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13 Jul 07
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To be fair, Microsoft seeks to solve real world problems with respect to helping customers glean more value from their information. But the approach depends on enterprises adopting an end-to-end Microsoft stack—vertically from desktop to server and horizontally across desktop and server products. The development glue is .NET Framework, while the informational glue is OOXML.
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Microsoft seeks to create sales pull along the vertical stack between the desktop and server.
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Microsoft's major XML-based format development priority was backward compatibility with its proprietary Office binary file formats.
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Microsoft's backwards compatibility priority means the company made XML-based format decisions that compromise the open objectives of XML. Open Office XML is neither open nor XML.
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Microsoft got there first to protect Office.
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Microsoft can offer businesses many of the informational sharing and mining benefits associated with the markup language while leveraging Office and supporting desktop and server products as the primary consumption conduit.
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By adapting XML
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Microsoft will vie for the whole business software stack, a strategy that I believe will be indisputable by early 2009 at the latest.
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I'm convinced that Office as a platform is an eventual dead end. But Microsoft is going to lead lots of customers and partners down that platform path.
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