[FYI] Writing history with Microsoft's Office lock-in

["Axel H Horns" <axel.h.horns@gmx.net>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30410.html

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Writing history with Microsoft's Office lock-in  

By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco  

Posted: 25/04/2003 at 20:43 GMT  

Sometimes, very small decisions can have a very big impact on how 
people work in the future. So join us, on a journey into the future: 
a story that begins with a little fudge.  

In a little noticed move, Microsoft has slid on its commitment to 
produce open standard file formats for its Office products.  

By maintaining a proprietary binary format that frequently changes, 
Microsoft has kept the exit costs high for potential defectors. 
However, Microsoft has for a long touted its investment in XML as a 
sign of its commitment to openness.  

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