Microsoft promises world domination at PDC

Tom's Hardware Guide ^ | 9/19/2005 | Scott M. Fulton

[Incorrigible]

Office 12 Rocks!

[Incorrigible]

 

 

[Lazamataz]

I've had a chance to preview MS WORD 12.

[Rodney King]

I wish I could realistically promise domination of the world. Just think, men's only roads and atm machines. Plus, all women would get their schedules in synch and have to go off on a retreat with the kids for 5 days at the bad time of the month. That is, except for the large number of women who work in the genetlemen's clubs while the rest of the women are off on the retreat.

[pikachu]

Microsoft is doing what no single Linux vendor, or association of such vendors, have accomplished so far: It's putting these new standards together and making a working information sharing system out of them.

Sign. Micro$oft is always creating 'new' standards and then either does not allow people to peek at the 'gears' underneath or changes the 'cogs' to lock out those who were able to figure out what was going on behind the scenes. Their new XML idea supposidly comes with an EULA that says you do not own the content of your own files.

Micro$oft is like the IRS -- you have to deal with them, you do have to pay thme money, and your they do not understand why they are not universally loved.

[N3WBI3]

No longer will Office documents be locked into a proprietary format; in fact, the contents of those documents can be unlocked, queried, compared with and against one another, and shared using open formats. And not just the version of "open" formats that Microsoft has been pushing, but really Open in the traditional, Internet way.

Im really thrilled about this and I hope it works out well for MS. I am rather amused that while in the process of pissing and moaning about the state of MA wanting an open doc format that has been documented and supported for years the rank and file astroturfers here pretend MS invented open formats.

These new protocols and standards that comprise Vista's landscape were largely developed under Linux environments, and many by Linux supporters.

I must have missed it in the article what new protocols? it looks to me like MS is just using other open mature protocols (good for them). It is like how they hype they were hyping 'dns technology' for active directory even though they were more than a decade late to the party..

[Incorrigible]

Their new XML idea supposidly comes with an EULA that says you do not own the content of your own files.

If you find a link to that, please ping me!

[Incorrigible]

other open mature protocols

New for Microsoft!

[Jack of all Trades]

I'm having a hard time understanding.

How is moving to open file formats not a boon to open source?

What's the big deal? So they changed the GUI and the file formats. Hasn't that been SOP since day one?

What replaces the menu bar? Context sensitive right click, anticipation by the application (please say no), or something else?

Seems like a lot of hype.

[Incorrigible]

Context sensitive right click, anticipation by the application (please say no), or something else?

Context sensitive toolbars!

[dfwgator]

[flashbunny]

Will it be as industry-changing as microsoft BOB???

[softwarecreator]

Really?  I have an MSDN and should go check and see if it's available for download.

Thanks for the ping!!

[softwarecreator]

LOL!

I'd forgotten about BOB!!  Actually, I probably blocked it out of my memory.

[Incorrigible]

You will be assimilated!!!

[softwarecreator]

Office 12 will change how users work with computers

Wasn't this what Office '95 was going to do?  And Office '98 and Office XP and Office 2000 and Office Suite 2003.

[KansasConservative1]

AND????????????????????????????????

[6SJ7]

Microsoft BOB. Woof!

[Incorrigible]

And they did! In retrospect it's easy to overlook how Windows and Office has changed our experience with our computers (for the better wiseguys!) since we've become so adept at using them.

Office 12 is a significant improvement however.

[ROTB]

>...but also spotlighting the Linux communities' key weakness:
>their lack of cohesion among one another.

I really wish the KDE and Gnome folk would team up

Maybe Microsoft *is* betting that the Open Source community will never gel to generate as integrated a product. After all OpenOffice and Firefox are enough for 90% of the world ...