How much you want to bet it's not just another embrace, extend, extinguish move on MS's part? They have never yet accepted a standard and not added enough to it that their products wouldn't work seamlessly with the rest of the world's products that used the same standard. If they do, it will be a first.

Just save stuff in .rtf, everything works with .rtf

It's quite funny that IBM are having to advise their own staff to use their own (IBM) software rather than MS Office!

I thought that was interesting too. I wonder which genius came up with the notion that staff should use company created software as opposed to the competitors.

Did anyone read the comments to that article? It seems as if several IBM employees have commented there and not a one of them have seen the memo that this article says exists. Furthermore several of those IBM employees who have commented say they run Linux at work, not Windows. It seems as if IBM supports multiple Linux distros in the corporate workplace, at least according to some of the comments left by some of the people who say they work for IBM.

It looks to me as if the story is a fake as almost all of the IBM employees say the 20,000 number is waaaay too low.

I have to agree with Freddy (again). The company I work for has just over 53,000 employees, and I feel we are smaller than IBM and M$.

I can see why people would gravitate towards O2K7 -- the new Ribbon interface is just damned slick. The new UI is so well organized that it has really increased my productivity when writing. It's so good that I'm wondering exactly who MS "borrowed" it from. This is probably the first worthwhile upgrade to Office since 2000, methinks (at least for those who don't care about Sharepoint). Here's hoping that OOo can "borrow" heavily from MS' efforts here.

It's slowed me down quite a bit... but I think I'll get used to it, and ultimately, be better off for it.