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mandy

11-22-2005, 12:04 PM
Quote:Microsoft will on Tuesday announce it is opening up access to its Office file formats to competitors, as part of a move to ensure the software giant does not lose lucrative government markets for its Office software.

The move will ensure that computer users will be able to open and work with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents without having to buy the Microsoft Office software to do so...

full article: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e9f5c0f8-5ab7-1...e2340.html

jezebel

11-22-2005, 10:44 PM
Betcha everyone at Sun Microsystems is  Toothy9 to hear this news.

regic

11-23-2005, 03:06 PM
[quote author=jezebel link=topic=1386.msg5130#msg5130 date=1132699452]
Betcha everyone at Sun Microsystems is  Toothy9 to hear this news.
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Sun=StarOffice and offshoot OpenOffice
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