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 Its yet unpublished format ISO OOXML will not be supported before the release of the next Office generation.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

How to sell it.

[Odder]

Try this as a TV ad:

Available NOW with Suse 11 - M$ compatible ODF. Yes, you too can have the fantastic results of M$ collaboration, for the low low price of your freedom. You get special, non free fonts you can't share with your friends. Astound your friends and stun your enemies with documents only the paytard leets can read! Woooo hoooo! [very fast voice] some conditions and restrictions apply, void where prohibited or sane, pay no attention to the man behind the curtian, Xandros, Mepis and other collaborators sold separately under slightly different terms and conditions.[end fast voice][end spot]

Somehow, I don't see the above going over very well.