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Speaking of standards, Håkon Wium Lie, Opera's CTO, has written a great piece at CNET about Microsoft's effect on web standards compliance relating to Open XML (new file formats for the just-released Office 2007, Mac Office 2008 update coming in Q3) and their transparent protestations to IBM's ODF (Open Document Format)...(comparison).

"Choice" is a prominent word in the letter. The authors argue that consumers want several standards from which to choose. I don't think so. Consumers never wanted the choice between VHS and Beta,...