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Submission + - AFNOR will vote "No" with comments to OOXM (afnor.fr)

BlueYoshi writes: The french normalisation organisation AFNOR will vote "no" with comment for the proposition of OOXML as an ISO standard. The AFNOR is asking to some change in the specifiction to have a convergence between ODF and OOXML.

They propose to separate in 2 the specification (core and compatibilty). the press communication in french. Microsoft France reacted on this communication but is looking forward to collaborate.

Why Windows is Slow 885

hype7 writes "The New York Times is running an article on why they think Windows is so slow. They boil it down to one key factor - legacy support - and they hold up Apple as an example of a company willing to make hard decisions around legacy support in order to provide a better product. From the article: 'Windows is now so big and onerous because of the size of its code base, the size of its ecosystem and its insistence on compatibility with the legacy hardware and software, that it just slows everything down ... That's why a company like Apple has such an easier time of innovation.'"

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