No, M$ does not want to support EVERY FILE FORMAT on the planet, only
those they can control and change when it suits their purposes. OOXML
was DELIBERATELY written with with ambiguities and vague descriptions so
that if someone else DOES try to implement it M$ has lots of room to
say, "Oh, no, you're wrong. What we MEANT was ..."
All the rest of the file formats, the ones M$ can't control, they will
try to undermine by foisting their own not-quite-standard versions on
the public. Look at the mess they made of web pages with Internet
Exploder and all its non-standard HTML. They tried to do it to Java,
too, but they didn't get away with that one.
Micro$oft's motto: "If we can't control it, then mess it up so nobody
else can use it either. And bring out a new incompatible version every
year!"
Jim Hartley
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On Saturday 29 September 2007 23:03:41 Fred A. Miller wrote:
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On Saturday 29 September 2007 18:48:50 S. A. Gnezdov wrote:
Windows can't support every file format in
the planet.
But that is exactly what Microsoft is trying to do.
NOT hardly. ONLY if they're put into a very tight bind do they
even attempt it.
Fred
And just how do you know they aren't. Just look at their track
record.
If they don't want to do exactly what I said they would not be
trying to get OOXML ISO approved. What would be the point? We
already have an ISO approved OpenDocument Format. We do we need
two?
Microsoft does not want to cooperate with other software
manufactures. Look at all the things we have two of and the ones
that Microsoft made only work on Microsoft but the others work on
all OSs. Does it look like Microsoft is trying to work with the
rest of the software manufactures? Why is Microsoft the only one
that is different? Everyone else uses the established standards.
Microsoft creates their own.
So, what were you saying? I don't think any one heard you.
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