From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 10:45:53 MST
--- BillK <bill@wkidston.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Office 2003 and Windows Server 2003 will include a Rights Management
> Services feature for document security (W25). If Microsoft can
> convince businesses to use this feature, Office 2003 documents
> will be completely unreadable by OpenOffice / StarOffice,
> WordPerfect Office, Lotus, and by
> all older versions of Microsoft Office, forcing a total upgrade of
> Windows, Office and the computers it runs on.
It is so disappointing when a report purporting to be dispassionate
can't even hide its own disinformation very well. Files produced by any
new version of any software, when the file formats are not industry
standards (as WP, Lotus, and older versions of MS Office are
proprietary, while GIF, JPG, RTF, TXT, etc are standardized) are not
readable by older versions of that software or of any competitive
application indroduced prior to the new version. To act like this is
some new thing is disengenuous and expositive of the disinformational
agenda of the authors of this report.
>
> Office 2003 will not run on Windows 95, 98, 98SE or Me. Microsoft is
> very clear that it will run only on Windows XP and Windows 2000 with
> SP3
> (Service Pack 3) applied (W17). Currently over 60% of Microsoft's
> business customers are still running Windows 95/98, and would have to
> purchase all new computers for an XP upgrade - new computers soon to
> be obsoleted by Longhorn and Palladium.
Ah, so the authors are disparaging Microsoft for doing something which
Apple already did with it's OSX upgrade?
>
> ------------------------------------
> The PC Industry
>
> The PC industry was once thriving, driven by rapid innovation. It's
> now down and it's not coming back.
The PC industry is undergoing a transformation from a feature driven
luxury market to a commodity market, principally because there are no
new major advances in user productivity to make until neural implant
technology becomes available. Those who refuse to recognise this are
dead in the market.
>
> --------------------------------------
> The Software Industry
>
> The PC software industry is in the final days of being destroyed by
> Microsoft.
The software industry, likewise, has failed to introduce any new major
advances in user productivity in several years. Until AI starts
becoming a major part of software applications, focusing on increasing
assistance to the user and without security weaknesses, the software
market will trend toward commodity pricing. Those who refuse to
recognise this will die.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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