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Microsoft Spokesman Says ODF "Clearly Won" Standard War

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-just-better dept.

Elektroschock writes "At a Red Hat retrospective panel on the ODF vs. OOXML struggle panel, a Microsoft representative, Stuart McKee, admitted that ODF had 'clearly won.' The Redmond company is going to add native support of ODF 1.1 with its Office 2007 service pack 2. Its yet unpublished format ISO OOXML will not be supported before the release of the next Office generation. Whether or not OOXML ever gets published is an open question after four national bodies appealed the ISO decision."

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  1. Re:Consumer vs Professional by nine-times · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Remember how Micorsoft "supported" Java with their non-compliant, buggy implementation?

    I really wonder sometimes whether that was purposeful, or if they're just unable to make a non-buggy implementation of... well, anything.

    After trying out Windows Vista, it almost seems like they're trying to "embrace, extend, extinguish" their own products.