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“Microsoft loses in standards vote” - front page of the Wall Street Journal

so the mainstream press is waking up to the story. No headlines on the front pages of the UK press that I could see, but this morning at Waterloo station (where the Bourne Ultimatum was filmed) they were handing out free copies of the WSJ with the ISO vote as the front page news.


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One Response to ““Microsoft loses in standards vote” - front page of the Wall Street Journal”

  1. Mika Heinonen says:
    October 5th, 2007 at 1:34 am

    “Microsoft Corp. failed to make its Office software file format an international standard”

    LOL, is that supposed to be a joke, or another “only in America” thing? :) THE standard is OpenOffice file format(s), as it’s free and available on all platforms. There’s no need to vote or think about that, it’s a fact. I mean all companies are pushing hard to move to OpenOffice (only SOX and ignorant IT managers are slowing down the process), so why would someone care about Microsoft’s Office restricted formats anymore. Re-training costs? Actually users need less than 0 seconds to learn OpenOffice, as it does what they want without having to learn any complex workaround to do what they want. Can’t beat negative training times!