MS Announces Open XML Formats Developer Group

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @08:52AM from the monkey-see-microsoft-do dept.

Andy Updegrove writes to tell us that Microsoft has responded to the recently formed ODF Alliance with a group of their own, the Open XML Formats Developer Group. From the article: "At launch, the new forum has either 39 or 40 members (the site is internally inconsistent on this point), the most prominent of which are Apple, Intel and Toshiba. [...] Despite the long list of founding members, it appears that the forum is purely informational in nature. A review of the site indicates that no specific initiatives are planned to be undertaken by the forum. Instead, it will provide information and provide a place for developers to pose questions, post content, and engage in discussion."

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Bad link? by jdeisenberg · 2006-03-21 09:02 · Score: 5, Informative

The link for the name Andy Updegrove should link to
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog.
Re:Real purpose by ClamIAm · 2006-03-21 09:19 · Score: 2, Informative

They don't even need "extensions" anymore, now that we have software patents. All they need is to have part of the schema patented, and they can strangle the format for 20 years.