"MICROSOFT has announced their surprise decision, that they cease to support OOXML document format (Office Open XML), acknowledging at the same time, that the ANSI-developed & supported TXT format will be a better, universal, solution." Yes this getting... ...full story at digg
from digg on Wed, Dec 05 2007
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| 21 May 08 |
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Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - But Not OOXML » slashdot Andy Updegrove writes "About two hours ago, Microsoft announced that it will update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to implement its own OOXML format. Not until Office 14 is released (no date given so far for that) will anyone be able to... |
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Microsoft makes final heroic grab for OOXML votes » the register (uk) We're open, come inside Microsoft has made one last crack at getting its Office Open XML (OOXML) approved as an international standard by reiterating that it won’t sue over future versions of its file format.… |
| 22 May 08 |
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MS Office to support ODF, other open formats » digg Microsoft today broke from its tradition of primarily endorsing in-house formats by revealing that it will add support to Office for a number of universal standards outside of its own. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will support the Open Document Format... |
| 05 Sep 07 |
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Why Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote » digg I believe that the world is big enough for multiple file-format specifications. I don't think the Open Document Format (ODF) deserves to be the only format sanctioned as an "open standard." That said, I also believe Microsoft deserved to lose the ISO... |
| 11 Dec 07 |
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KDE takes stand on OOXML; GNOME dithers » digg Three cheers for the developers and management of the K Desktop Environment. They have taken a principled stand on the divisive issue of OOXML, the Microsoft Office Open XML document format. And for this the KDE folk deserve a round of applause. |
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