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Microsoft Launches Document Interoperability Initiative

Microsoft Launches Document Interoperability Initiative

Posted Mar 6, 2008 19:13 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (subscriber, #16953)
Parent article: Microsoft Launches Document Interoperability Initiative

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. 


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