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And Now It's Microsoft's Turn Again

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Today, Microsoft responded with the announcement at its Office Developers Conference of its own initiative: the Open XML Formats Developer Group. At launch, the new forum has 39 members, most notably including Apple, Intel and Toshiba. Despite the long list of founding members, however, it appears that the forum is purely informational in nature.

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grouch ·
Quote: 'Gates noted that the new group, to be known as the Open XML Formats Developer Group, brings together three of his favorite words--"open," "XML," and "developer." "No organization is good unless you put 'open' " in there, Gates said.'

Now that is priceless. The Bill is admitting the impact of open source and open standards. He can use the word; he just seems to have trouble understanding it.

OpenDocument has the potential to open Bill's gates and set free a lot of data he holds hostage.
richo123 ·
Gates is being sarcastic I suspect.

I like "Open the Vista trapdoor..."
jsusanka ·
Microsoft still wants control of any document standard and still wants people to buy their software to get to THEIR data. That is the bottom line no matter what PR Billy puts behind it.
jdixon ·
> I like "Open the Vista trapdoor..."

Open the data bay doors, Bill. :)

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