Microsoft blasts IBM in dirty ODF war

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 19, 2007 12:34 AM EDT
iT News; By Tom Sanders
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IBM is hijacking the debate over document standards to promote its desktop suites while refusing to look at the merits of each standard, according to Microsoft's general manager of interoperability and standards Tom Robertson. Big Blue is one of the main backers of the Open Document Format (ODF), while Microsoft supports Open XML. "IBM does not want Open XML to be standardised. It does not want an alternative to be out there," Robertson told vnunet.com in an interview.

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