The Office 12 XML (MOOX) format is what that Microsoft will use for the
upcoming Microsoft Office suite. I get the distinct feeling that its
marketing or lobbying team is trying to dilute or confuse the phrase "open
office" in the same way they tried with the initials "RMS"
Any ideas on how to prevent co-opting the phrase "open office" or even the
individual words?
In Google a word search for the individual words "open" and "office" still
brings up links about OOo, but a search for the reverse order starts to
bring up MS pages. Note that these are individual words and not a phrase
search. Yahoo exhibits a similar change, but not as pronounced.
OpenDocument seems to be putting real pressure on the MS monopoly on
productivity suite formats. That in turn affects the profitability of
MSO, since sales have in the past been helped along by introducing
incompatibilities into the new formats. OpenOffice.org is putting direct
pressure on profit from MSO directly threatens MS' bottom line, it being
one of only two profit centers. So it would definitely benefit MS to
reduce the visibility of either OOo or OpenDocument. It would benefit OOo
to make some effort to protect the association of "open" and "office" with
OOo and not its competitor.
-Lars
Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software patents endanger the legal certainty of software.
Keep them out of the EU by writing your MEP, keep the market open.
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Claus Agerskov wrote:
The Microsoft Office 2003 XML is the current office document XML format
that Microsoft Office 2003 can use.
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