http://www.geekgumbo.com/2009/05/03/microsoft-office-free/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=microsoft-office-free A potpourri of Web Development, Linux, and Windows tips, tidbits, and observations Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geekgumbo.com/2009/05/03/microsoft-office-free/comment-page-1/#comment-7 dale Tue, 05 May 2009 01:21:37 +0000 http://www.geekgumbo.com/?p=113#comment-7 Oops, you are correct. Microsoft originally developed the OOXML format, and then turned it over to the Ecma International standards organization. So it would make sense that they would want to continue to support OOXML. Thank you. So as not to confuse readers, we have decided to correct this in the original post, and keep these comments as the source of our clairfication. Thank you again. Oops, you are correct. Microsoft originally developed the OOXML format, and then turned it over to the Ecma International standards organization. So it would make sense that they would want to continue to support OOXML. Thank you. So as not to confuse readers, we have decided to correct this in the original post, and keep these comments as the source of our clairfication. Thank you again.

]]> http://www.geekgumbo.com/2009/05/03/microsoft-office-free/comment-page-1/#comment-6 ronia Mon, 04 May 2009 21:40:09 +0000 http://www.geekgumbo.com/?p=113#comment-6 Clarification your facts are reversed in one MAJOR area. "Office 14 will have a new format that will support XML-based file format Open Office XML (OOXML). Microsoft has been fighting against this to try to keep to its own Open Document Format (ODF). " This is completely backwards. The ODF format was the first International ISO standard and was NOT created by Microsoft. Microsoft ramrodded the OOXML format through the ISO process and would like nothing better than everyone using their "standard". One company should never be in charge of standard. ODF is what Microsoft is adding as this is the way of the rest of the world. No more vendor lock in for data. Clarification your facts are reversed in one MAJOR area. “Office 14 will have a new format that will support XML-based file format Open Office XML (OOXML). Microsoft has been fighting against this to try to keep to its own Open Document Format (ODF). ” This is completely backwards. The ODF format was the first International ISO standard and was NOT created by Microsoft. Microsoft ramrodded the OOXML format through the ISO process and would like nothing better than everyone using their “standard”. One company should never be in charge of standard.
ODF is what Microsoft is adding as this is the way of the rest of the world. No more vendor lock in for data.

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