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Microsoft Launches Document Interoperability Initiative

Microsoft Corp. has announced their Document Interoperability Initiative. "Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of its Document Interoperability Initiative, which is aimed at promoting user choice among document formats and expanded opportunity for developers, partners and competitors. The launch of this initiative is an important step in Microsoft's commitment to implement a set of strategic changes in its technology and business practices to expand interoperability through the implementation of its interoperability principles. The Document Interoperability Initiative focuses on bringing vendors together to promote interoperability between document format implementations through testing and refining those implementations, creation of format implementation test suites, and the creation of templates designed for optimal interoperability between different formats."
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Microsoft Launches Document Interoperability Initiative

Posted Mar 6, 2008 19:13 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953) [Link]

Microsoft today announced an initiative to promote the OOXML standard and the importance of
standard "choice". This initiative includes ample use of buzzwords to appear open and confuse
PHBs and government agencies into believing that OOXML is actually implemented by Microsoft.
Not only that but that the format is actually a "standard" even if no one can import or export
documents from Microsoft products because they don't conform to standard.

Microsoft will devote significant resources to promoting the standard that Microsoft among
sucker^h^h^h^h^h^h partner company to implement while at the same time being incompatible with
Microsoft products. Microsoft will also work diligently to develop numerous patents to apply
to format so that anyone attempting to use "open" format will pay Microsoft lots of money and
structure patents such that GPL software will be unable to use "open" format and will
aggressively shift the blame to the un-American GPL. Microsoft also commits to devote
significant resources to ODF template importers that will make export to ODF impossible and
will ensure printing of ODF documents will result in bad formating, lots of blank pages and
use of unintelligible fonts while shifting blame for bad printing to be result of using ODF,
not any Microsoft product.

Microsoft's commitment to "open" standards is apparent in their pursuit of making OOXML an
international standard. Evidence of ISO vote rigging is all lies by un-American communist
viral GPL aggressors who lie about cake availability. 

Microsoft Launches Document Interoperability Initiative

Posted Mar 6, 2008 23:46 UTC (Thu) by Sycamore (guest, #50934) [Link]

So basically they wanna have their own private ISO..?

Same day: Open Parliament

Posted Mar 7, 2008 16:27 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

That's funny. Open Parliament launched the same day (although it won't really be publicised until Monday/Tuesday next week.

Open Parliament is a call to the European Parliament to start accepting and using open standards - so that citizens no longer have to be customers of any specific company to be able to communicate with MEPs or read/view the parliament's documents/streaming.

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