No, they can't, that's true. But we are not talking about ANY FORMAT, we
are talking about a recognized INTERNATIONAL format, ODF. A format
designed to provide an open accessible way of storing data. A format
designed to make sure that files can be read way, way into the future,
regardless of whether some particular company -- the company that
produced the word processor used to write the files -- goes out of
business, because somebody else will always be able to write a new word
processor to read those files. Any sane person would have to agree that
this is a GOOD THING!
Well, anybody but Micro$oft! They DON'T WANT open and interchangeable
file formats. THEY WANT TO HOLD YOUR DATA HOSTAGE so you are forced to
buy their new products every few years. Their vision of an ideal world
is one where every computer on the planet runs Micro$oft software ...
and jumps to instantly upgrade to their new releases whenever they deign
to put them out.
So Micro$oft is just digging in their heels and refusing to support ODF
or anything to do with it. ODF is DANGEROUS to their business model, and
they will do ANYTHING to stop it. (Including trying to BUY various
nation's standards committees to force their technically totally
inadequate alternative OOXML into being accepted as a standard.)
ODF is not "just any file format." ODF is not "every file format in the
planet."
Jim Hartley
S. A. Gnezdov wrote:
Windows can't support every file format in the planet.
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