Alan Yates
Alan Yates
designed fine limited microsoft needs office open products
Open Office is fine if you have very limited needs because it was really designed around what Microsoft Office products were designed around 10 years ago.
company confidence consensus controlled documents foundation gives within
It gives them the confidence that there is a foundation for documents that is not controlled by just one company but is a real consensus within the industry,
document force format functional less management public records state
public records management is to force a single, less functional document format on all state agencies.
address agencies best capability choice customer data database design dialogues documents formats functional itself lacking led less meet microsoft office ongoing policy products proposed records state suited supports types variety web
The proposed policy is inconsistent with ongoing dialogues Microsoft is having with other Massachusetts state agencies about how Microsoft products can best meet their data and records requirements for a variety of data types - ranging from traditional documents to pictures, audio, video, voice, voice-over-IP, data, database schema, web pages, and XML information. As we look to the future, and all of these data types become increasingly intertwined, locked-in formats like OpenDocument are not well suited to address these varying data types - as the proposed policy itself acknowledges. It's this need for choice and flexibility that led Microsoft to design Office in a way that supports any XML schemas that a customer chooses, a capability lacking in less functional formats.
additional associated costs encouraged existing issues pursuing review thorough understand
We're encouraged by the additional and thorough review that the Legislature is pursuing to better understand the costs and issues associated with the existing Massachusetts proposal.
extremely product successful
The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.
approach commitment explain expressed format given next office open openness opportunity shipped version
We've shipped a version of Office 2003 with an open format and we've expressed more commitment to the approach in our next Office releases. We feel that we're not being given enough of an opportunity to explain how openness is possible.
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We would have liked a greater opportunity to explain how openness is possible with Office. We've found a very positive reaction to our open formats and our approach, and there's a growing awareness there.