Yet the greedy Wall Street pricks aren't happy with a 20% profit.
That's because those pricks know about Microsoft's 90% gross margin and they want to know how the missing 70% got pissed away.
There is sure to be a Dead Sea effect and MS's long-term prospects cannot be great if they have lost / will lose their best people
Having lost control of the mobile market to Apple and Google, Microsoft can now look forward to its sunset years, slowly rotting away. Microsoft employees can look forward to more cuts, sooner rather than later. The one constant will be the backlbiting culture, which will increase as the concentration of rats on the ship increases.
It's not too late for Apple to see the light and switch iWork to ODF. Except that Tim Cook is kind of dim witted.
What does "human readable" mean for you?
This is normally understood to mean lines of printable characters.
For what it's worth, ODF is XML, which nominally human readable. So is Microsoft's OOXML, a perversion that demonstrates clearly that "human readable" doesn't always mean what it says. The main difference between ODF and OOXML is that ODF actually is a credible attempt to be open and portable whereas OOXML is designed to achieve the opposite.
And for an even more limited definition of "natively".
The vast majority of their users aren't especially smart when it comes to technology. They're essentially office workers - they don't give a stuff about the underlying format, they only care about being able to do their job.
So true. And therefore we should be thankful that some knowledgeable people who do care about such important matters are willing to step forward to do the right thing.
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.