not good news for ODF :(

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Mon Aug 18 19:24:35 EDT 2008


It is interesting that Office 2007 does not implement the ISO standard 
OOXML.
Michael Pelletier 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.
>   


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