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Microsoft Promises To Fully Support OOXML ... Later

Posted by Soulskill on from the sounds-like-a-government-timetable dept.

Raul654 writes "OOXML is the Word document format that Microsoft rammed through the ISO last year. Last week, we discussed a blog post by Alex Brown, who was instrumental in getting OOXML approved by the ISO. Brown criticized Microsoft for reneging on its promise to support OOXML in the upcoming release of Office 2010, and for its lackadaisical approach to fixing the many bugs which still remain in the specification. Now, Doug Mahugh has responded to Brown's post, promising that Microsoft will support OOXML 'no later than the initial release of Office 15.'"

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  1. Re:Office...15? by Jazz-Masta · · Score: 4, Informative

    Office 14 is Office 2010.

    So, Office 15 will be the version after 2010.

  2. Re:Office...15? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Office for Mac can not either save or read ODT. No ODT plugins or converters available.

  3. Great news! by Bearhouse · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, the Frankenstein monster is disowned by its creator. Excellent.
    Encourage your clients, friends and families to use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
    Fully supported by all the major office suites, including of course Oo.

  4. Re:Office...15? by poetmatt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, but even if they do office 15 next, we're still looking at an easy 3+ years. The stuff from now won't even be relevant by then, enabling things to still be undocumented and not compatible.