● 02.06.08

●● Quote of the Day: “Analysts? Gotta Love Them.”

Posted in Deception, IBM, Microsoft, Open XML, Quote at 5:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

This one come from The Register:

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On his blog Rough Type, tech-minded author, speaker, and friend of The Reg Nicholas Carr says that he opened up his email client to find a note trumpeting the latest reports from Forrester Research. One of these reports – issued on January 31, a day before Microsoft announced its bid for Yahoo! – was called “Microsoft Will Make Small Acquisitions: Its Size, Visibility To Antitrust Bodies, And Strategy Rule Out Big Deals.”

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Analysts? Gotta love them.

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We have had our fair share of criticisms of analysts, e.g. [1, 2, 3].

There’s a close second for “Quote of the Day”. It’s the comment “Microsoft OOXML == Dog Stool”.

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Microsoft’s capacity for deceit is unbelievable – OOXML is not a standard, it is an incomplete and disorganized collection of ancient .DOC errors and incompatible exceptions that will NEVER be fully utilized, especially not by MS OFFICE 2007 (Microsoft Big Lie number 1,265,487.0).

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Microsoft’s attempt to fast-track OOXML was foiled when people actually started to examine the 6000+ pages of often contradictory declarations and references to external undocumented proprietary blobs (almost certainly covered by MS patents).

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Now some Microsoft mis-representative is whining “it’s all IBM’s fault” when they get caught and have to explain their bad behavior (attempting to coerce ISO fast-track adoption with bribes and stacking the deck with Microsoft ‘Partners’).

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More about Microsoft’s insults against IBM here. █

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