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Fred Fredrickson 26th Feb 2008
No_Ax can't understand the difference between the benefits of competing products
and the stagnation caused by competing standards. Microsoft chose to invent a
new standard in the hope of causing stagnation in products using competing
standards.

When you own say 90% of the office suite market stagnation is good, it cements
your advantage. The risk for MS is that office suites move beyond vendor lock-in
to truly open standards.

People are aware of the cynicism behind OOXML, it is already irrelevant in deciding
the future of office suits since it is unlikely that anyone will be able to build a
product that seamlessly interoperates with any OOXML document created by an MS
application.

Google Docs may not be the next big thing, but something very like it will be.
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