Microsoft limits XML in Office 2003
A distinction that Microsoft is making between professional and standard versions of Office 2003 means that many customers may not get all the features they've been expecting, including broad support for Web services.
For more than a year, Microsoft has touted Office 2003's support for Extensible Markup Language (XML), a highly anticipated new feature of the productivity suite. But Microsoft now plans to fully deliver the feature only in the two high-end versions of the product, one of which will be available only to businesses subscribing to Microsoft's volume-licensing program...more [CNET]
The Microsoft response to this story as presented by new PR flak, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, former Iraqi Minister of Information (currently on administrative leave, and loaned to Microsoft).
"Lying is forbidden in Microsoft. Bill Gates will tolerate nothing but truthfulness as he is a man of great honor and integrity. Everyone is encouraged to speak freely of the truths evidenced in their eyes and hearts. Their failure in regard to Open Source is abysmal. They want to tell the world changes thought - as a matter of fact, they do not respect the world, they want to tell customers and the public to keep them deceived. May they be accursed.
Any advances made by Open Source are simply those that we allow. It is all a clever trap to lure them to the crushing vise of our monopoly, I can assure you that there are no servers running this Linux. We're going to drag the drunken junkie nose of Torvalds through the OS desert, him and his follower dogs Sun and IBM...There are 26 million Bill Gates in Redmond!
By Bill Gates, I think these things are rather very unlikely. This is merely Open Source prattle. The fact is that as soon as they reach Redmond's gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them....Wherever they go they will find themselves encircled. May the body of Torvalds rot in the street and be eaten by dogs. They spew lies to say there are servers running this Linux. I will show you. You will see that this was all a lie. I will take you there and show you. IN ONE HOUR! Gates willing we will slaughter them. The computer press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies! Steve Ballmer will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of our monopoly.
We will embroil Open Standards, confuse them and keep them in the standards quagmire. They have begun to tell more lies so that they might continue with the perpetration of their migrations. The Open Source supporters are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Redmond. Be assured, our monopoly is safe, protected. Let the Linux infidels bask in their illusion, because we will behead you all.
Microsoft will not be defeated. Windows has now already achieved victory - apart from some technicalities"...mj
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