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Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard?

Posted by Hemos on from the good-news-if-true dept.

Emil Brink writes "According to this entry in XML spec co-author Tim Bray's excellent blog, the European Commission has formally asked Sun to make the XML file format used in OpenOffice.org into a true ISO standard. Hopefully this will cut down on vendor lock-in and lure people from using Microsoft Office. "

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  1. The best thing about standards... by provolt · · Score: 3, Funny

    The best thing about standards, is that there are so many to choose from!

  2. Re:Why would this lure them away? by Aceto3for5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft Pricetag(tm) and Microsoft HardToOpenBox (tm). Those kinda features.

  3. Re:planmaker? msoffice==expensive! by Richard+Dick+Head · · Score: 3, Funny

    Def #6: Moral adj. Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the actual evidence: a moral certainty.

    Well, I don't know about you, but I get that warm fuzzy feeling inside when I pir8 a MSFT product.

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  4. Re:Why would this lure them away? by Fla · · Score: 3, Funny

    I actually pasted your post into Word just to see what it would suggest. I'll have you know that "yourself" should actually be "you", and "checker's" should be plain old "checkers".

    So you see, Word's grammar checker actually can be helpfu... uh... nevermind.