On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:40:56 +0100, Lars D. Noodén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
[snip]
time that features and functions listed in the MS ads and brochures
failed to work or even exist in the shipped version of the product.
MS has a long track record of leveraging vaporware to disadvantage
competitors. It would be no surprise if one of the contributing
factors[1] was the inability for MS Office to support non-MS based XML
schemas.
The last reason is that they basically dont want to support it but they
are choosing other words that wont make them look as if they dont want
to.
It's not hard to see that MS is one of the members on the technical
committee to develop the OASIS Open Document Format for Office
Applications (OpenDocument), but is the only one to not support it.
Then again it wont be the only one, Adobe/Corel were also in the commitee
and they dont support it either.
What does look really bad is that the claim that MS Office can handle a
variety of XML schemas looks false. The failure of MS to support ODF is
either A) that these claims are false, MS cannot in fact support
arbitrary XML schemas, or B) that MS is actively disabling just ODF.
There's no way for MS to look good, but maybe that's not important.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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