That's very interesting, especially considering that Microsoft's strategy has consistently been proprietary data formats that evolve not to introduce new capabilities, but to prevent their use in other programs. Microsoft Excel, for instance, changed from .xls (already an exclusive proprietary format) to .xlsx in order to shut competing spreadsheets out of being able to load and modify spreadsheets made with Microsoft Excel.
Windows doesn't care about interoperability with the world either. Windows Explorer totally ignores any Linux disks attached to the system, even refusing the give them a drive letter.
This tells me the wheels have come off Microsoft's attempt to monopolize the server market and now, for the first time, are forced, in desparation, to play nice with the rest of the world! That is great news. But it doesn't mean that Microsoft is now wearing a white hat.
Now if they will switch the format of output files of all their business files to .ods and learn to non-destructively read and write ext2, ext3, ext4 and other disk formats, including Apple's I'll take them seriously about wanting to be good citizens of the computing world.
Last edited by Rockin Robbins; 12-09-15 at 05:16 PM.
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