Microsoft's campaign to help Linux on the desktop

Commentary - sometimes I feel that if Microsoft did not exist, Linux fans will have to create it.This is Linux land the company everyone loves to hate - often have good reasons, sometimes there is no reason, just because it sometimes feels good.Recently, Microsoft seems to be returned in kind compliment.Land in the open source people do not begrudge Microsoft the right to earn income, such tactics had.Moreover, at least in application, there is a strategy that almost all open source advocates the assassination of the top of the list: the use of proprietary Chinese medicines, undocumented file format - text code, if it is bold and change the store profits.Office 2007 Professional can give people so much convenience.If Microsoft does not adopt this strategy, the majority of users may still use Office 95, but made the older version of Office file formats unreadable new version, Microsoft has created a pressing need to upgrade, even users who do not need anynew features."It's like a virus," I remember a MS - Office users told me."You okay, as long as everyone's using an older version. When a user get the new version, everyone needs to upgrade, so with that person, even if they are happy to use the old version."MS Office 2007 is the best invention in the world.An important side, save the file format is proprietary and other word processing program can not correctly import Office documents.In their discourse (TM) imports a significant functional limitations.Therefore, Microsoft could - also - the end to gain control of the end of the way people share files, and how they create them.This problem has been a consistent pain in the open source world.Open-source programmers do not mind the characteristics of competition with Microsoft, but at least be able to move files back and forth between the office and its alternatives.In response to my earlier statement, the U.S. government ordered the company split Bingbu certainly be helpful, 如 Linux, Tidai product growth, the number of responses I have the book, who believed that Zhiyao open Wenjiangeshi the playing field Bugou balance Rang open sourcea reasonable opportunity to compete in the world.With the next version of Office and Office XP are known, these users may get their wish.Office XP's native file format, fact-based definition of XML, HTML ultra-high-level should be, open to anyone, enough to create the necessary tools to accurately read and write Office documents.In the past, Microsoft's agreement, when they had sufficient open, open source development has been well implemented.The two best examples, which has been started to set and get file sharing SMB protocol DHCP protocol.DHCP and SMEs were invented by Microsoft is mainly to re-invent and the Unix world (BOOTP and NFS, are referred to as the existing agreement).Open-source world, Linux and other platforms, the implementation of DHCP, and many people feel that Linux as a Samba server to make a good Microsoft file servers, Microsoft does not make any software.Open Office file formats will be made immediately, such as KOffice's, AbiWord of free software projects and head office of the head of the OpenOffice equivalent?Of course not.But it will enable them to compete is characterized by what people think of the real rather than "can not read the word (TM) file?"Office of the Linux desktop, using XML to help SMEs open to allow up to Microsoft to help the Samba Linux server to become a competition.To be sure, but also with the current availability of Linux graphical user interface problem, Windows still runs more than the Linux desktop applications.However, both GNOME and KDE are significant progress in improving the ease of use, if the wine does not run Windows service applications will then Win4Lin.Microsoft's XML file format, it will be for all Windows and Office users to do so, can provide a greater advantage, the company's competitive than its fans for Microsoft.