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Re: It makes no sense
by Diederik van der Boor on Friday 02/Nov/2007, @18:19

> [about OOXML] I'm sorry, but get a reality check. MS Office has about 90% market share.

No, this is a reality check. OOXML has *NO* market share today. There are more ODF documents at the web then OOXML documents. The .doc and .xsl formats do have market share. If KOffice and OpenOffice support OOXML now it will help Microsoft to get that marketshare.

It's a classical Microsoft trick: provide documentation so everyone jumps in the boat, and stop providing information once they got market share. They did the same with early MS-Office formats, the MSN protocol, and even the SMB protocol was documented partially once to kill Netware (MS even invited developers from Samba). The community shouldn't fall for this trick with OOXML.

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by T. J. Brumfield on Friday 02/Nov/2007, @20:17

Of those 90% of users who use .doc, how many use Office 95 .doc, or Office 97 .doc, or Office 2000 .doc, or Office XP .doc, or Office 2003 .doc?

Most today probably fall within the last 3, but I work for a newspaper, and there aren't many vendors who specialize in software for the newspaper industry, but th Harris software we use (and hopefully we get away from) sits as a wrapper on top of Word 97, so our newsroom is forced to stick with Word 97, ten years later.

Google was once a nobody 10 years ago. IE once had an insurmountable lead in market share. Educating users, providing a better product, and good marketing can overcome huge market shares.

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