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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx</link><description>A few interesting and entertaining links to end the week: IBM's Stance Against OpenXML Is Increasingly Confusing – Oliver Bell has a great post where he drills into the history the FUD approach. He also points out how easy it is for a large organization</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>MSDN Blog Postings  &amp;raquo; Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7250485</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:30:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7250485</guid><dc:creator>MSDN Blog Postings  » Links for 1-25-08</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;PingBack from &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08/"&gt;http://msdnrss.thecoderblogs.com/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7252875</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:36:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7252875</guid><dc:creator>S</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;1) All your links are to Microsoft employees. Now that's what I call community support.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moronic to say the least.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2) I don't work at IBM, but that does not stop me from seeing through the shit you are posting. Rob cleared the FUD that your fine colleagues were posting (&amp;quot;IBM suports OOXML right now&amp;quot;). And the smart person that you are links to a post where IBM makes an official announcement that &amp;quot;IBM *WILL* support OOXML&amp;quot;. I'm not sure how this is supposed to refute what Rob says. But I'm sure you have a very good logic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A minimum of ethics is not necessary when you work at Microsoft these days, apparently.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7268130</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:59:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7268130</guid><dc:creator>BrianJones</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;S,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are you for real? :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is there some reason I'm required to post links to non-MSFT people only? Whatever dude...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Brian&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7268137</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:00:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7268137</guid><dc:creator>BrianJones</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Also S...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you're going to come onto my blog and not only insult but also swear, then at least have the guts to use your actual name. Thanks! :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;-Brian&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7268385</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:13:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7268385</guid><dc:creator>Fredrik E. Nilsen</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Well, I am not sure about your counting abilities Mr. S but there are ten links in this blog post. 3 of them points to other Microsoft employees, 1 points to Brian Jones' own blog. The rest of the links points to Rob Weir, Jesper Lund and the Oasis web site. What was your point again? A minimum of reading abilites is not necessary when you post your comments apparently.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At least the MS employees allow disagreeing comments in their blogs. Rob Weir censors most of the comments that disagree with him, as many posters here have noted. In stead of answering difficult questions he just deletes them. How ethical is that?&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7269679</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:25:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7269679</guid><dc:creator>Francis</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Instead of answering difficult questions he just deletes them.&amp;quot; I'm glad that technique was not used in responding to the national bodies' comments! :-D&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BTW, do we really need to ask S for his name? His literary style reminds me of somebody who posted frequently on this blog in the past--and whose name also begins with S.&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7272792</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:59:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7272792</guid><dc:creator>hAl</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Mr R&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7273648</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:54:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7273648</guid><dc:creator>Z</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;His literary style reminds me of somebody who posted &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;frequently on this blog in the past--and whose name also&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; begins with S.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;don't think so. .. &amp;nbsp;this guy used to be technical in his posts ... and besides that, he said that he &amp;quot;loved&amp;quot; OOXML ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
</description></item><item><title>re: Links for 1-25-08</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2008/01/25/links-for-1-25-08.aspx#7282873</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:33:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:7282873</guid><dc:creator>skc</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;His literary style reminds me of somebody who posted frequently on this blog in the past--and whose name also begins with S&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I assume you mean Stephane Rodriguez, the guy that runs an anti-MS weblog somewhere.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It could be the same guy, he swears alot when he has no point to make.&lt;/p&gt;
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