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Comments on: Microsoft joins options reformfest

Fortuitous membership - yeah righ, more like profitable membership ... 

Posted Wednesday 1st August 2007 10:21 GMT

"Participation is fortuitous for Microsoft, given XBRL features in its Office products. Membership is dominated by financial services representatives."

Yeah right.

More likely they're going to try to add "custom work-saving extensions" (which obviously won't be documented and/or inoperable) to weasel their dominant position into yet another product market.

The worst part of course is, nobody even cares ...

Re: Fortuitous membership - yeah righ, more like profitable membership ... 

Posted Wednesday 1st August 2007 12:26 GMT

You took the words right out of my mouth - or fingers in this case. Whatever...

How long until we see the new, "improved" MS-XBRL? "Improved" in that it'll only work properly with MS-Orifice products...

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