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	<title>Comments on: FUD on the Formats</title>
	<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=39</link>
	<description>How to get off, where to get off, and why you should stay off Microsoft, with news and tips on alternatives</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>by: Get Off Microsoft &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Microsoft&#8217;s Future of Uncertainty and Doubt</title>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=39#comment-209</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>[...] The resistance to upgrading has also infected Office customers. The uprisings in Massachusetts and the European Union to standardize on OpenDocument are just the beginning of a backlash against Office 12, which will not support the format. With a bit of spin control, Microsoft has proposed its own &#8220;open&#8221; standards, but the formats submitted are not open &#8212; they maintain the bind that ties business and government customers to Office. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] The resistance to upgrading has also infected Office customers. The uprisings in Massachusetts and the European Union to standardize on OpenDocument are just the beginning of a backlash against Office 12, which will not support the format. With a bit of spin control, Microsoft has proposed its own &#8220;open&#8221; standards, but the formats submitted are not open &#8212; they maintain the bind that ties business and government customers to Office. [&#8230;]
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		<title>by: Vulturo On Technology &#187; Microsoft Doesn&#8217;t Like Open Standards</title>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=39#comment-122</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>[...] Tony explains how Microsoft is employing FUD to combat ODF, a collection of open document formats which could threaten its stranglehold on Office Software [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Tony explains how Microsoft is employing FUD to combat ODF, a collection of open document formats which could threaten its stranglehold on Office Software [&#8230;]
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		<title>by: Vulturo</title>
		<link>http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=39#comment-121</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2005 07:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Great read.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great read.
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