Because standards tend to reflect what has already been done. Breaking new ground often means leaving the standard formats behind. Besides, Microsoft is its own defacto standard. Why else do you think all these Linux office applications are trying to boast of having good import-export filters for real Office files? What would be the percentage, for a company the size of Microsoft (whose fondest ambition is to corner the entire market), to limit themselves by entering into standards agreements with competitors, regarding their own market-dominating products? I don't see it. Neither do they... and they get paid more than you and I.... <g> /kevin On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 14:12, Michael Garabedian wrote:
Why don't they just make one format that everyone follows...like ISO for comptuer formats. -----Original Message----- From: w7ntf@aol.com [mailto:w7ntf@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 1:25 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Windows programs under Linux
I must say that Star Office does a terrible job at importing M$ Excel documents as well.