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ODF Vs. OOXML File Counts On the Web
mrcgran writes "In eight months since Office 2007 was released to the general public (10 months since release to enterprise customers), there are fewer than 2,000 of these office documents posted on the Web. In the last three months, 13,400 more ODF documents have been added to the Web, with only 1,329 OOXML documents added. It would be hard for the Microsoft camp to spin ten times as many ODF documents added as OOXML documents, especially since 34% of those new documents were added on Microsoft.com. That isn't what I would call good traction for Microsoft's overwhelmingly dominant office suite."
I personally have found that when trying to open old DOC format files that OpenOffice.org does a much better job than the latest version of Word does.
.ODF, it's a published, open standard that is as trivial to write a parser for as it is to just unzip the file and look at the XML directly...
Especially if you have any legacy Word 1.0 or 2.0 documents that can't be upgraded to the latest format for contractual reasons - Office 2007 will not open those files correctly, and those files are officially unsupported by Microsoft.
I'm surprised that more people don't just use