Archive for June 21st, 2009

Embrace, Cripple and Extinguish

Back to the lost cause of document interoperability (I just love lost causes): as you may or may not remember1, back in 2008 – almost exactly 1 year ago, after the OOXML fiasco – I wrote a tirade about how Microsoft can attack the (really) open OpenDocument Format by botching their implementation of it in MS-Office 2007 SP2.

Well, guess what – they did botch that and while Rob Weir takes a Hanlon’s razor view on this, I can only say: “Told you“.

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  1. probably not as no one commented on the original article []