5 Questions with Sun Microsystems' Simon Phipps
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| As another Sun employee, Erwin Tenhumberg, pointed out in his blog quoting a
| KOffice developer, OOXML's goal is compatibility with one particular
| application -- Microsoft Office. Therefore, OOXML is very closely related to
| and dependent on the Microsoft Office implementation. In contrast, ODF is
| based on the OpenOffice.org XML file format, not the OpenOffice.org
| implementation.
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| That's a huge difference because the OpenOffice.org XML file format was
| designed with application, vendor and platform independence in mind...
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http://reddevnews.com/blogs/weblog.aspx?blog=1861
Related:
[Sarcasm] MICROSOFT drops support for OOXML!
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| The decision of backing up TXT format by MICROSOFT means, that the OOXML
| format name will have to be changed and its development & research will be
| passed on to another company or organization.
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http://polishlinux.org/apps/openofficeorg/microsoft-drops-support-for-ooxml/
Microsoft won't commit to the open document standard it's pushing so hard
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| Now consider this from Brian Jones, a Microsoft manager who has worked on
| OOXML for six years. In July, Jones was asked on his blog whether Microsoft
| would actually commit to conform to an officially standardised OOXML. His
| response:
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| ?It?s hard for Microsoft to commit to what comes out of Ecma [the European
| standards group that has already OK?d OOXML] in the coming years, because we
| don?t know what direction they will take the formats. We?ll of course stay
| active and propose changes based on where we want to go with Office 14. At
| the end of the day, though, the other Ecma members could decide to take the
| spec in a completely different direction. ... Since it?s not guaranteed, it
| would be hard for us to make any sort of official statement.?
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| Now that?s cynical. After all this work to make OOXML a formal, independent
| standard ? a standard created and promoted by Microsoft, remember ? Microsoft
| won?t agree to follow it.
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http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3685&pagtype=all
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