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To: marky who wrote (2043)12/20/1997 12:56:00 AM
From: Kashish King  Read Replies (1) of 3014
 
When you send a proposal composed in a word processor, the recipient must be able to open it.

That is, unless you are Microsoft. You see, it took a virtual riot for Microsoft to make Office 97 compatible with Office 95. They were hoping to force users to upgrade by deliberately creating incompatibilities. Apart from Microsoft itself, most companies will not have any trouble integrating one-button import and export. The trend is now toward open formats such as SGML and HTML and that's now being advanced world-wide. Again, the problem for consumers is Microsoft. Java changes all that and with Sun, IBM, Novell and thousands of smaller companies supporting this international standard you can kiss MSFT goodbye. Once IBM's eSuite starts to roll it will have a snowball effect. Banks and other leading industry giants are not going to tolerate anything but open formats. They are getting too smart and spending too much money supporting Microsoft's hairball software.
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