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Two Open Document Standards Better Than One?

Posted by Zonk on from the snarky-lil-megacorp-aren't-they? dept.

tsa writes "Microsoft says that the consumers should have the choice between multiple open standards for documents." From the article: "Microsoft's Yates said that OpenDocument and Open XML come from very different design points. 'In the future at some point there will be convergence,' he said. In the near term, the transition period from proprietary document formats to Open XML-based ones will be 'messy and complex,' he added. 'Competition between standards we believe is a very good thing.'"

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  1. MS craftier than you think by spycker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I got a new laptop and it had MS works installed. I used Word until the trial period expired then when I could no longer open documents I downloaded OpenOffice. Lo and behold when I try to open an MS document now it does open using Word except it does ask me to license the product.

    I get the impression that Word looks for OpenOffice and if it finds it decides to go ahead and open the document!!!!