Setting a New Standard

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 21, 2007 3:46 PM EDT
eWEEK Linux; By Jason Brooks 		Mail this story
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Without question, OOXML falls far short of being a universal office document exchange format. Considering Microsoft's enormous backward-compatibility commitments, I'd go so far as to say OOXML's own authors would probably agree ODF would be a superior format on which to base a new application. But with or without the ISO's blessing, OOXML is substantially more open than are Microsoft's legacy binary formats. As a user of OpenOffice.org on Linux who works in a mostly Microsoft-formatted world, I'm somewhat of a stakeholder in the ODF-vs.-OOXML horse race, and I'd like to see OpenOffice.org take advantage of this marginal boost in openness

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This is another lets have two standards article tracyanne 10 1,161 Jul 23, 2007 5:44 AM

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