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Long Knives Are Out as the French Fry OpenOffice with Microsoft Office

Posted by zanek on · 2 comments
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After a year of testing, French virus experts have concluded that Microsoft Office is less dangerous than its competitor, OpenOffice. In the short term, this is great news for Microsoft... outside of Europe. More anti-open source FUD will delay some planned migrations. Longer term, OpenOffice will benefit, as France and Germany pour resources into securing the product they now rely upon. The race is, as they say, afoot.

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Comments (2)

hkwint ·
Nice thing here the article doesn't mention too much, is that this French group is pointing out where the vulnerabilities are, and how they probably can be solved. This to enable the OOo team to work on it.

I haven't seen governments helping to make MS products more secure by means of collaborating with them AFAIK.
salparadise ·
Captain Pedantic here...

The race is on, or, the game is afoot.

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