On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 12:55:07 PM -0400, Daniel Carrera
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>
> For once in my life, I will defend Microsoft.
>
> I'm sorry Marco, but no. Using different APIs between Word and Front
> Page does not at all help Microsoft achieve lock-in. And to some
> extent makes it harder. But the simple fact is that they are
> different applications.
>
I was thinking to different version of the same applications. Or (on a
limited set of functionalities) to two applications of the same type
(two office suites in this case).Not to treat different categories of
applications (office suite vs website authoring) as if they were the
same type of tool created to solve the same problem.
> I honestly believe that if something like that happened, it would
> *kill* OpenDocument
I have specified that I don't think it would belong to OpenDocument,
I think only a body like OASIS or ISO or W3C could make something like
this acceptable to large institutions.
Ciao,
Marco
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The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one
wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering
if something could have materialized -- and never knowing. --
David Viscott
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