Only for Microsoft.......
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| Ridcully Feb 22, 2014 6:40 AM EDT |
The software giant says it could lead to problems......only for Microsoft...... It could lead to the UK abandoning Microsoft software.....loss of Redmond profits.....domino effects. Oh deary me, no wonder Microsoft is upset. But then I am rather cynical with respect to anything Redmond does. |
| maxxedout Feb 22, 2014 10:59 AM EDT |
You mean bigger problems than: Lost of Data? Lost productivity due to down time? Stolen data due to poor security? |
| TxtEdMacs Feb 22, 2014 2:26 PM EDT |
Quoting: Lost of Data? Lost productivity due to down time? Stolen data due to poor security? Mere trifles ... now Lost Cash, that's serious! As I was so tempted to write when I kept reading the UK Cabinet (whatever that is) is moving to Open Source, i.e. ODF as if it were fact. Then as now, I will believe, if and only if I ever see it happen. Until then hands will be greased, thinkers will coopted to tell the public what danger lurks if ODF becomes the UK's [or any other major entity (insert here)] Free and / or [Really} Open standards. You can sure MS will never let the false beguiles of such options come to pass. Now if the UK now extracts a discount, perhaps even steep for its continued purchases of MS's wares, that I can believe and seen it happen in the past. As always, YBT |
| gus3 Feb 22, 2014 2:29 PM EDT |
@MBT, you might want to do a personal integrity system check. Reason: I'm sharing your cynicism. |
| DrGeoffrey Feb 22, 2014 5:14 PM EDT |
Let's not confuse recognition of reality with cynicism. |
| Ridcully Feb 22, 2014 5:34 PM EDT |
Unfair TxtEd........you're "outcynicsising" me......LOL. Unfortunately, you are probably right. The UK has made similar moves previously, but the Micromoles always managed to put a roadblock up. However I'm a "cock-eyed optimist" (as a very pretty lady once sang on a beach somewhere in French Polynesia - or somewhere) and I live in hope that perhaps: THIS time. Watch this space. |
| gus3 Feb 22, 2014 5:35 PM EDT |
"Micromoles." A new word for my vocabulary. |
| BernardSwiss Feb 23, 2014 12:54 AM EDT |
What about the issue that Microsoft's "implementation" of ODF doesn't play well with anybody else's? This isn't going to be as straightforward as it by rights ought to be. |
| Ridcully Feb 23, 2014 1:48 AM EDT |
Tsk, tsk BernardSwiss........what else would one expect given Redmond's ethics, past behaviour, monopoly instincts, greed, control, closed source, and it's policy of the "three E's"....(embrace, extend, extinguish) ?? But you know all of that already and I am just being very naughty and cynical. :-) I receive digital copies of Microsoft documents all the time due to an organisation I belong to.....I am trying as hard as I can to get all secretaries to send out attachments in either .doc or preferably, PDF. Anything except the latest Microsoft formats - they are definitely rigged to ensure nothing except Microsoft software can read and format them correctly. |
| gary_newell Feb 24, 2014 4:50 AM EDT |
The one concern I have is the UK government's determination to cheap out on absolutely everything. They probably will move into open source if it saves a few quid. They will then hire the cheapest of the cheap to manage their systems (or they will let their Microsoft trained guys support them. Hey a computer is a computer after all). It will then all go horribly wrong and they won't blame their hiring/firing/pay peanuts and get monkeys policy. They will blame open source software. |
| Ridcully Feb 24, 2014 7:11 AM EDT |
@gary_newell.........I think you may be underestimating British "bloody mindedness" when they know they are right. The best example of this that I know about, is the London Stock Exchange which transferred to Linux despite what I believe was out and out sabotage by "Micromoles".......If the Brits finally decide that they should move across to FOSS, there is NO way that Redmond will prevent it. I remain an optimist. And if they move, then perhaps finally, Australia will realise the enormous penalties that Redmond is exacting on progress in the IT world. |
| gary_newell Feb 24, 2014 12:19 PM EDT |
I think they will tread quite carefully after the NHS software debacle of the previous government. Believe me the conservative government here in the UK would sell their Grandmothers to the North Koreans for fuel if it meant they would make a few quid. I would also be surprised if the UK government went for this because I'm sure some of them will have significant shareholdings in Microsoft. I think the basic rule of thumb over here is if they have their fingers in the pie then they won't legislate. For instance private parking companies and payday loan companies. In the UK if somebody burgles your house they will almost certainly not go to prison. Download a film off the internet and sell it to your pals and you probably will. I can only hope that the vote for independence works otherwise we are doomed Mr Mainwaring because we will then be like turkeys voting for Christmas. You voted to stay in the UK therefore we now have the remit to do as we please. |
| Ridcully Feb 24, 2014 5:39 PM EDT |
Well, given you live there, I bow to your knowledge of the place. We can but hope. |
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