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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. "

2 of 509 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Why would this lure them away? by karolo · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Excel, for thechnical graphs? you are joking right? If you had said Microcal Origin or Sigma Plot I might have taken you seriously, but Excel? Anyway, the only way to get proper profesional looking technical graphs is gnuplot and LaTeX.

    And don't even get me started about Excel regression capabilities, that is an even bigger joke.

  2. Re:I wonder.. by rawdot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up!