[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <4b40db44$0$278$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> On 03-01-2010 05:13, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>>> And MS supply free readers for doc/xls/ppt as well.
>>>
>>> And they have publicized their formats as well, so
>>> other can implement them.
>>>
>>> So the difference is ??
>>
>> that M$ didn't do this until their monopoly
>> was completed. About fifteen years ago
>> you'd had a hard time to view those proprietary
>> formats properly on anything different than M$ Windoze+office.
> 
> True. But you would have the same problems with Lotus, WordPerfect
> etc. products.
> 

And all of them, including MS, provided the ability to save to
other formats that were compatable with other companies products
(or does noone remember things like SYLK for spreadsheets?)

bill

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