● 01.23.07

●● Is Microsoft ‘Correcting’ Blogs on Open XML?

Posted in Deception, Formats, Interoperability, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard at 1:04 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Originally, this observation was merely a comment of mine. Later I decided it was worth pointing out in a new blog item.

Yesterday we mentioned a report about Microsoft’s money incentive for changing Wikipedia. More specifically, Microsoft sought to ‘embelllish’ technical details about OpenXML by contacting a field expert. Only a day later, Boycott Novell received a comment ‘correcting’ information about OpenXML. See this for yourselves. There is precedence here as well, namely promotion of Microsoft products in blog comments:

MSN Is Spamming The Blogosphere

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Mr. Youth LLC is a marketing firm and lists MSN as a customer. Their website is here: http://www.mryouth.com/ Their phone number is (212) 779-8700.

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I’ve talked to a couple of other bloggers who said they are receiving similar comments on their blogs. This pisses me off because MSN/Mr. Youth should 1) be more upfront about their true identity, and 2) provide a real e-mail address so that I can request they take my blog off their marketing campaign.

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