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Microsoft's Open XML Project A Short-Term Fix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the patching-a-sinking-ship dept.

TechPro writes "In an interview with eWeek the managing director of the ODF Alliance (Marino Marcich) was pretty dismissive of Microsoft's Open XML Translator project. While the move was a recognition of the ODF Format's acceptance by government's around the world, the installable software plug-ins that would be created under the project were really 'only a bridge, a stopgap measure that will probably not be acceptable to government's around the world over the long term. Plug-ins simply don't give the benefits of open file formats and standards,' he said."

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  1. Re:Java Redux by Jesus_666 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    OpenOffice has already broken from the ODF spec to accomplish some things.

    Interesting. Care to elaborate/give a link?

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