If you were looking for a format to store your document in, what would you look at? Robust support for whatever it is you’re doing and maybe cross compatibility, right?
Not Microsoft. They’re so divorced from reality over in Redmond that their number one priority is on a format’s performance. Over here in CT, we’re not sure that standards actually perform, nevermind have a measurable quantity of performance with which to guage against each other.
Sane minds insist that’s a function of the program using the format. Which isn’t what they’re arguing.
So what’s up? Is Microsoft just getting a little senial? Are they going to sit out on the proverbial porch and mutter about proverbial “dang kids” soon? Or is their marketing team simply beyond making sense and into making up arguments for not using anything not approved by your overlords at Microsoft.
Microsoft: OpenDocument is too slow - ZDNet UK News
“The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory,” Alan Yates, the general manager of Microsoft’s information worker strategy, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday.
