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 Its yet unpublished format ISO OOXML will not be supported before the release of the next Office generation.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."

Comments

Re:The end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft?

[nstlgc]

No. That's the problem. ODF wont mean squat if it doesn't become the default format. Because no one will bother "Saving As..." to ODF before publishing documents.

This should be a hint that NOBODY REALLY CARES.

Re:Wish i could see what you see..

[amias]

and most importantly don't bother telling us tell the OOo
devs , they might actually do something about it.

Whining about missing features in an open source project is
just silly , if the features make sense and you want them ,
help build em thats what open source is for.

or are you not good enough ? if so how are you qualified to comment and why should we listen to you ?

Toodle-pip
Amias