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Story: Microsoft's file format perestroikaTotal Replies: 4
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dinotrac

Dec 17, 2008
12:15 PM EST 		Why does Microsoft need to document anything about it's ODF support other than a line saying where to find the "save as" or "import"?

If their ODF support is any good at all, it is already well document because ODF itself is documented.
techiem2

Dec 17, 2008
2:00 PM EST 		They have to document all the parts of the ODF standard that their implementation doesn't have....and all the extra MS ODF only features that it does have.....and all the features they implement differently than the standard....
dinotrac

Dec 17, 2008
2:00 PM EST 		Exactly.
Bob_Robertson

Dec 17, 2008
2:35 PM EST 		I looked in a hackers dictionary somewhere, it said,

"Microsoft" verb, to obfuscate. He Microsofted the file format to make everyone else incompatible.
vainrveenr

Dec 17, 2008
3:26 PM EST 		Actually according to the Wiktionary defn at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Microsoftify , it's best termed Microsoftify
Quoting:Microsoftify Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary * 1 English o 1.1 Etymology o 1.2 Verb + 1.2.1 Synonyms English

Etymology

Microsoft + -ify

Verb to Microsoftify

1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (transitive, slang) To load with Microsoft programs. 2. To assimilate into a Microsoft framework.

Synonyms * (load with Microsoft programs): microsoft, Microsoft
That second definition here draws the analogy of Microsoft to the Star Trek Borg, e.g., 'The Borg Collective' at http://www.startrek-voyager.info/j.html

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