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A Microsoft officer admitted OOXML can't win anymore. He stated that Microsoft came too late to the scene and it was very difficult to convince people to use their standard over another format standardized almost 2 years earlier.
The OpenDocument Format has benefited from the two-year battle over the ratification of Microsoft's rival Open Office XML standard, which is native to its Office 2007 suite, Microsoft's national technology officer said Thursday during a panel discussion at the Red Hat Summit in Boston. "ODF has clearly won," said Stuart McKee, referring to Microsoft's recent announcement that it would begin natively supporting ODF in Office next year and join the technical committee overseeing the next version of the format. "We sell software for a living. The ability to implement ODF in the middle of our ship cycle was just not possible," he said. "We couldn't do that during the release of Office 2007. We're looking forward and committed to doing more than [ODF-to-OOXML] translators."The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ratified OOXML in April. ODF backers, including major vendors like IBM and Sun, long decried it as too proprietary to be declared a standard.
The OpenDocument Format has benefited from the two-year battle over the ratification of Microsoft's rival Open Office XML standard, which is native to its Office 2007 suite, Microsoft's national technology officer said Thursday during a panel discussion at the Red Hat Summit in Boston.
"ODF has clearly won," said Stuart McKee, referring to Microsoft's recent announcement that it would begin natively supporting ODF in Office next year and join the technical committee overseeing the next version of the format.
"We sell software for a living. The ability to implement ODF in the middle of our ship cycle was just not possible," he said. "We couldn't do that during the release of Office 2007. We're looking forward and committed to doing more than [ODF-to-OOXML] translators."
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ratified OOXML in April. ODF backers, including major vendors like IBM and Sun, long decried it as too proprietary to be declared a standard.
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So does this mean that the native file format for Office 14 (2009) will be ODF? Will we see OOXML supported as a filetype for compatibility rather than the default save option? I'd like to think so, and remove some filesharing challenges for our users.