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Microsoft Spokesman Says ODF "Clearly Won" Standard War
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 Its yet unpublished format ISO OOXML will not be supported before the release of the next Office generation.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."
Ice-capades grand opening in hell marred by dive-bombing pigs.
Porcine aviatrixes were spotted across the country.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Two phrases come to mind:
"The cake is a lie."
"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."
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And we know Office will render/produce ODF just as well as IE 6 renders standards compliant HTML.
The ODF version of this comment is best opened with Microsoft Office 2007 or higher.
"Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns" -Journal of Political Econom
however, I think that 1) ODF should be left alone (no EEE)
Hey, I'm using OpenOffice on my Eee PC right now, you insensitive clod!
So, it can be the default, it's just not the default for it to be the default?
...but I'd be amazed if you weren't at least an order of magnitude out. Yeah - it's probably more like 800%. Knock em if you want to, but give credit where it's due.Word format documents probably hold 80% of the world's knowledge.
Funny - 80% of all statistics are made up on the fly. What a coincidence!