So what did I conclude? Well, I decided that MS reckons it faces a choice of evils. If it loses control of OpenXML, then it may face a slow erosion of Office market share as it becomes possible for users to buy competing products on an incremental or trial basis. On the other hand, if […]
The most interesting thing for me was the insight I got into where MS is going on OpenXML. Now this is not something they addressed directly, or rather the insights did not come from their direct statements. So my insights were simply what one tired old cynic concluded from a variety of chats in the […]
NCC is a rather odd organization. Back in the days when the UK overtly believed that the role of government was to cooperate with big companies, it was founded to persuade such companies to buy their computer equipment from ICL, the UK’s rival to IBM.
Anyone not close to what used to be retirement age will […]