Topic: A warning shot over the bows of Microsoft Office?

[Nemesis]

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A letter to Sun Microsystems' COO Jonathan Schwartz by the European Commission (EC) this week may set the stage for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to adopt the Open Office XML format (also known as OO.o XML) as an ISO standard. If it does, the stamp of approval would mark the largest ever validation of Sun's work on the desktop.

Once the standard is ratified what iis needed is for governments and major companies to standardize on this format.  That would level the playing field for office software.  Everyone could use the office software they want without regard to what the person/organization who they may be sharing it with uses for Office software or OS. 

Now what will Microsoft do?  There are so many options open to them. 

[Just plain old Punisher]

The warning shot caused Office to crash again.

::sigh::

why not just shift your aim a couple degrees and say it was a target indentification error.

[Nemesis]

The warning shot caused Office to crash again.

::sigh::

why not just shift your aim a couple degrees and say it was a target indentification error.

I don't want to kill them.  Just maim the a little. 

[Javora]

I don't want to kill them.  Just maim the a little. 

Maybe you can shoot some of that bloat off of MS Office.   

[RogueJedi_XC]

Microsoft Bloat(tm) is impervious to all forms of destruction known to man.