Google Pleased With ISO OOXML Decision

yogi writes "In a blog post from this Friday past, Google welcomed the ISO decision not to fasttrack OOXML. They also (once again) voiced their public support for the ODF standard. 'Technical standards should be arrived at transparently, openly, and based on technical merit. Google is committed to helping the standards community remain true to this ideal and maintain their independence from any commercial pressure ... Google supports one open document format and calls on industry participants to collaboratively work on ODF. With multiple implementations of one open standard for documents, users, businesses and governments around the world can have both choice and freedom to access their own documents, share with others and pass onto future generations.'"

Comments

Re:Of course.

[MightyMartian]

Google doesnt have to screw over customers to make money.

Unless those customers are Chinese dissidents.

Re:OOXML... what's the point?

[speaker of the truth]

Calc simply isn't as good as Excel even for casual users. I cut and paste entire columns on a regular basis and Excel actually removes those columns and pastes the columns where I tell it to. Calc on the other hand simply cuts the data out and places the data where I tell it to, overwriting whatever data was originally there. So no, you can't convince an advanced user to switch from Excel to Calc as Calc being better if you're honest.