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Hopefully, this long running battle is finally coming to an end: ODF (Open Document Format) has benefited from the two-year battle over the ratification of Microsoft's rival OOXML (Open Office ...
  1. 06-19-2008 #1
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    "ODF has clearly won"

    Hopefully, this long running battle is finally coming to an end:

    ODF (Open Document Format) has benefited from the two-year battle over the ratification of Microsoft's rival OOXML (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.
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    Hopefully this battle will come to an end and everyone will focus on one standard. Having two standards for the same thing was unnecessary in my opinion.
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    I read this first at OSNews when I got in this afternoon. I agree with most comments there:
    "embrace, extend, extinguish"

    It's happened before, chances are it will happen again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bidi View Post
    I read this first at OSNews when I got in this afternoon. I agree with most comments there:
    "embrace, extend, extinguish"

    It's happened before, chances are it will happen again.
    lol... yeah, I'm becoming much more the "I'll believe it when I see it" type, myself.
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