Europe's not finished with Microsoft http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-56240/europe-s-not-finished-with-microsoft Posts in the discussion thread "Europe's not finished with Microsoft" - A short summary of the history of Microsoft and the European Union. Closing remarks on the "openness" of OOXML are quite interesting. http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-56240#post-153747 Europe's not finished with Microsoft http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-56240/europe-s-not-finished-with-microsoft#post-153747 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:30:33 +0000 jwildeboer 92679 Richard Hillesley at ITPro writes about the competitive issues surrounding the Microsoft system and tells us at the final page of article:

"Proprietary protocols are anathema to network computing and a deliberate hindrance to innovation and competition in computing environments. Few of the players, or users, maintain the illusion that a Microsoft-only world is either desirable or attractive - and the accusations of ballot stuffing, bribery, and undue political influence that surrounded the acceptance of OOXML as a standard by the ISO has only served to emphasise this reality."

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