On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat(a)zcat.geek.nz> wrote:
2008/5/22 Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald(a)jandi.co.nz>:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080521-office-2007-to-gain-native-odf...
As I keep saying I think Microsoft is heading down a more open path. Sure they're not there yet but this is a good move. It wasn't that long ago that Sun was a closed source company (think Solaris, Java).
I'd like to believe it, but so soon after the OOXML fiasco it's pretty hard to swallow. My prediction is that MS Office will support an 'improved ODF' with features 'designed to preserve legacy document formats'.
Time will tell..
I'd rather have OOXML as a standard than not at all.... Microsoft already have to change Office to cater for flaws found in standardisation process - said will be in next service pack. -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz