“Unfortunately, serious shortcomings have been identified in Microsoft’s support for ODF. Putting potentially millions of ODF files into circulation that are non-interoperable and incompatible with the ODF support provided by other vendors is a recipe for fragmentation.”
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ODF Alliance Weblog: Microsoft's ODF Support Falls Short - 0 views
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I think Mr Marcich forgot to put inverted commas round his particular use of "ODF" to denote its special meaning ...
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Microsoft’s ODF Support Falls Short
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some of the so-called ‘plug-ins’ were revealed to provide better support for ODF than the recently released Microsoft Office 2007 SP2
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Front-page: Microsoft now attempts to sabotage ODF - 0 views
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received from the ODF Alliance
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next week. A harder-hitting press release with Fact Sheet. Stay tuned!
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http://www.odfalliance.org/blog/index.php/site/microsofts_odf_support_falls_short
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Open XML blogging in 2007 - Doug Mahugh - Site Home - MSDN Blogs - 0 views
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At the height of the Document Wars, Doug Mahugh posted this year end, month to month, blow by blow list of blog assaults. I stumbled upon Doug's collection following up on a recent (December 20th, 2010) eMail comment from Karl. Karl had been reading the infamous "Hypocrisy 101" blog written by Jesper Lundstocholm: http://bit.ly/hgCVLV Recently i was researching cloud-computing, following the USA Federal Government dictate that cloud-computing initiatives should get top priority first-consideration for all government agency purchases. The market is worth about $8 Billion, with Microsoft BPOS and Google Apps totally dominating contract decisions in the early going. The loser looks to be IBM Lotus Notes since they seem to have held most of systems contracts. So what does this have to do with Hypocrisy 101? To stop Microsoft BPOS, IBM had to get a government mandate for ODF and NOT OOXML. The reason is now clear. Microsoft BPOS is dominating the early rounds of government cloud-computing contracts because BPOS is "compatible" with the legacy MSOffice desktop productivity environment. Lotus symphony is not. Nor is OpenOffice or any other ODF Office Suite. This compatibility between BPOS and legacy MSOffice productivity environments means less disruption and re engineering of business process costs as governments make the generational shift from desktop "client/server" productivity to a Web productivity platform - otherwise known as "cloud-computing". IMHO, neither ODF or OOXML were designed for this cloud-computing :: Web productivity platform future. The "Web" aspect of cloud-computing means that HTML-HTTP-JavaScript technologies will prevail in this new world of cloud-computing. It's difficult, but not impossible, to convert ODF and OOXML to HTML+ (HTML5, CSS3, Canvas/SVG, JavaScript). This broad difficulty means that cloud-computing does not have a highly compatible productivity authoring environment designed to meet the transition needs
libOPC version 0.0.1 released - Doug Mahugh - Site Home - MSDN Blogs - 1 views
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Good review of Florian's work on the libOPC project! Sadly i wrote a lengthy comment on this, but then made the mistake of sending it to Facebook where they clipped off 80% of what i had written. Huge mistake on my part. Facebook continues to piss me off in ever new and innovative ways.
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If MEOOXML (Microsoft-ECMA Office Open XML) can pass through the contradiction without complaint, the 6,000 page specification describing XML encoding of MSOffice specific binary processes gets to move on to the fast track phase.
This is very sneaky stuff. Micrsoft tried to submit MEOOXML to ISO in mid December. Perhaps in hopes of catching an extra 20 or so days of holiday right in the midst of the critical 30 day contradiction review period. Apparently the USA representative to ISO JTSC1 refused the submission until after the hollidays. Still, with near zero publicity, and 6,000 pages of crap to sludge through, the review phase has begun.
IMHO, only the ODF experts can effectively point out the ocntradictions and inconsistencies with the MEOOXML submission. So this is a call for Rob Weir, Florian Reuter, Patrick Durusau, Sam Hiser, David A Wheeler, Bruce D'Arcus, the legendary Daniel Vogelheim, and the infamous Marbux to step forward with the full force of their expertise.
Since Florian has the most experience with the hapless and tragically deceptive MS-Novel-CleverAge Translator Project, where the glaringly obvious contradictions and inconsistencies are being hastily pasted over, i'm anxious to see where his blog takes us:
http://florianreuter.blogspot.com/
~ge~