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UOF Vies to Be a Third Contender in ODF–OOXML Battle
Andy Updegrove writes "Long-time followers of the ODF-OOXML story will recall that there is a third editable, XML-based document format in the race to create the documentary record of history. That contender is called UOF, for Uniform Office Format, and it has been under development in China since 2002. Last summer, UOF was adopted as a Chinese National Standard, and on Friday the first complete office suite based upon UOF was released. It's called Evermore Integrated Office 2009 (EIOffice 2009 for short). How successful could this new entrant be in China? For starters, Evermore Software Co. Ltd., its developer, is reportedly the largest software vendor to the Chinese government. And then there's price: Evermore's professional edition is less than a quarter of the price of the comparable version of Office 2007. And finally, it's clearly no coincidence that on July 11, Evermore Vice President Cao Shen called for Microsoft to be the first target for China's new anti-monopoly law, which will take effect in just ten days' time. Whether Shen is speaking to, or for, the government remains to be seen."
Coming soon from MacDonald Software, the Enterprise Interoperability Evermore Integrated Office release (E-I-E-I-O).
They should have called it the Uniform Format of Office. UFO sounds way better than UOF.
Ole Mi Tou Nol had an office suite. EI....EIOffice
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Seeing as how both ODF and UOF is based upon open standards (based on Wikipedia), what advantages does UOF offer over ODF?
Less jail time if your Tibet protest pamphlets are saved in UOF?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
probably a lot like how they're harmonizing with Tibet and Taiwan.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
The AC is right. How many versions of wordprocessor extensions do we really need?
I for one welcome our dyslexic UFO overlords.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
but it is NaN times more expensive than OpenOffice.org!
ast I knew, they were working on a way to harmonize UOF with ODF. How is that going?
Well they have a new name, UFO: Unified File Object, which, if flies, will also offer security through obscurity in that its contents will be Unidentifiable, thus making Microsoft happy in the same breath. Microsoft of course wishes it to be called "Unidentified File Object" and thus mod it +5 Funny so that it doesn't get accepted.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
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This whole wordprocessor thing has gone from the from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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What's a `word processor'?
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So I take it the UOF standard will allow you to write anything as long as its not political, anti-social or anything about human rights? I wonder if it has its own version of Clippy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clippy? "I see you are writing an article on human rights. Would you like to see a list of government agencies that are watching you?"
1. Get a team of programmers and sponsor them with big chinese govt. money
2. Put them to work to get rid of Microsoft
3. Profit!!
Well, I suspect it's something along the line of a food processor. You know the kind - you put your ingredients into it, push a button and the result is something you wouldn't recognize if you didn't know what just happened.
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
Hitler, Stalin, and Roosevelt would like to thank you for making this point. Also, they wanted to mention that they all hated pirates.
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
The AC is right. How many versions of wordprocessor extensions do we really need?
Three and half.
What's the value of information that you don't know?
Ha! We'll win this format war yet by giving them useless seemingly-good moderation points that do nothing to improve their karma!
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