Microsoft to give Office access to rivals

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gliezl
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Microsoft to give Office access to rivals

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Microsoft will announce it is opening up access to its Office file formats to competitors, as part of a move to ensure the software giant does not lose lucrative government markets for its Office software.

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I heard a rumour that GM were going broke I wonder if MS is getting worried.

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Every empire. Every empire (I will say it again) eventually falls. Just as MS is stumbling around trying to catch up with Google and moving into that loss leader of hardware (toy computers ie Xbox360 - the non compatible console)

So MS is waning and Google is rising and will eventaully fall to Open Sourcing. So we are a generation ahead. Is Windows usable and useful? Yes. Does Google work? Yes. Google makes use of and invests in Open Source. So they serve the eventual Tux supremacy. Am I ranting :oops:

Here is someone more measured on open standards
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,18 ... X1K0000616
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