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Thread ID: 90921	2008-06-20 04:54:00	ODF WINS! against Microsoft's proposed OOXML format.	vitalstatistix (9182)	PC World Chat

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680516	2008-06-20 04:54:00	Yay! ODF (Open Document Format) has benefited from the two-year battle over the ratification of Microsoft's rival OOXML (Open Office XML) standard, which is native to its Office 2007 suite, Microsoft's national technology officer said Thursday during a panel discussion at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. "ODF has clearly won," said Stuart McKee, referring to Microsoft's recent announcement that it would begin natively supporting ODF in Office next year and join the technical committee overseeing the next version of the format. "We sell software for a living. The ability to implement ODF in the middle of our ship cycle was just not possible," he said. "We couldn't do that during the release of Office 2007. We're looking forward and committed to doing more than [ODF-to-OOXML] translators." www.infoworld.com I wasn't looking forward to MS introducing another "standard". :rolleyes:	vitalstatistix (9182)
680517	2008-06-22 11:27:00	Good stuff	joemac (9739)
680518	2008-06-22 12:30:00	You can't look forward to MS doing anything.	beeswax34 (63)
680519	2008-06-22 19:05:00	You can't look forward to MS doing anything. This one in particular would have wide ranging effects on everyone and is completely unnecessary as the ODF standard is more than sufficient for what it does, beeswax. I assume you are aware of what would happen to the end user and other companies if Microsoft's OOXML had become the "Standard"? The end user would have been hit with another Microsoft tax in due course - this doesn't happen with the current ODF format (at least as far as I am aware)	vitalstatistix (9182)
680520	2008-06-23 06:49:00	Vital, why does a microsoft standard have a open source-ish name? Open office?	joemac (9739)
680521	2008-06-23 06:51:00	I don't know, you would have to read the article or ask MS. It may be "open" but anything coming from MS is guaranteed to have strings attached. In their entire history they have never done a deal with a "partner" or partners that didn't work in Microsoft's favour. Also why do we need another format when the exisitng one is fine and the new one doesn't bring any obvious benefits? The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ratified OOXML in April. ODF backers, including major vendors like IBM and Sun, long decried it as too proprietary to be declared a standard.	vitalstatistix (9182)
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