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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. About standards by just_gecko · · Score: 0, Redundant

    XML may be an aproved standard and so on, but having support for true xml in any open source software won't lure users from MS Word, no matter how standard XML is. As far as most businesses are concerned, .doc files ARE STANDARD, and the emails very often have .doc attachements. Heck, they could mail PDF, but they don't. They keep using Word. Talk about the power of the habit.