not good news for ODF :(

[Chris]

You have a good point there, didn't think of it that way round, but
will M$ actually release their document format completely, they have
never been known to be open with any of their stuff.

Chris


On 8/18/08, Michael Pelletier <mvpel at hushmail.com> wrote:
> I would think that this would be better news than trying to play catch-up
>  with undocumented features, bugs, conversion problems, and
>  forward-incompatability in Microsoft document formats every two years.
>
>  With OOXML an ISO standard, it should now be possible to write an editor
>  that is absolutely 100% compatible with Office 2007 documents, with no pesky
>  compatability or rendering quirks, right?
>
>  It's not like Microsoft was ever going to fully adopt ODF, in any case -
>  they're Microsoft, after all.  IBM should know that personally, given their
>  experience with OS/2.
>
>         -Michael Pelletier.
>
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