Customer Demand

re: Customer Demand

Swashbuckler — Tue, 16 May 2006 03:11:07 GMT

Hmmm... Where was the demand for Open XML prior to its creation? Sometimes you have to ask the right question...

re: Customer Demand

jasonmatusow — Tue, 16 May 2006 08:10:56 GMT

Swashbuckler (first name?)-

Our customers were asking us for open doc formats for a long time. If you check out Brian Jones' blog (link is on my blogroll)you'll see that he has been working on XML formats for Office for 5 years now.

As always - thx for the comment.

Jason

The World Is Clamoring for ODF! (Not)

Open Sources by Dave Rosenberg and Matt Asay — Tue, 16 May 2006 19:45:47 GMT

Jason Matusow (former shared source king at Microsoft, now shared standards king at Microsoft) has a good post today about customer demand for ODF. Tim Bray and others have hounded Microsoft to open up and support ODF. Jason's response? We're...

re: Customer Demand

Nektar — Thu, 18 May 2006 13:53:03 GMT

Still your arguments are not convincing on why Microsoft did not colaborate with ODF in order to create a single standard that would have met everyone's needs. It might have been just a mistake in stradegy but it might also have been a calculated move on the part of Microsoft. Who knows? In any case, and whatever the trueth might be, Microsoft has earned again the bad reputation of a company which breaks standards and relationships.

re: Customer Demand

yoonkit — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:03:04 GMT

> This [PDF Support] came about because we had very strong feedback from customers

> that this was important. The feedback was not one or two customers

> – but rather tens of thousands.

Hi Jason,

Is it true that if there are "tens of thousand" individual customer requests, Microsoft will support ODF as a native file format in Microsoft Office? Can the integration be just like HTML, TXT, WordPerfect and CVS?

"tens of thousands" would be in the region of 10,000 to 99,000 customers?

yk.