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Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)Posted Nov 28, 2005 13:09 UTC (Mon) by danielc (guest, #34150)In reply to: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw) by XERC Parent article: Format Comparison Between ODF and MS XML (Groklaw)
By that argument, OpenDocument is a lot more standard than MS XML. Right now OpenDocument is used by a lot of people (users of OpenOffice.org, and other applications). There are over 20 applications that either support it, or plan to support it soon:
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/Applications/HomePage
By contrast, MS Office 12 XML is not even out. There is no current application that supports it. It's market share is 0%. Office 12 won't come out for a few months. In contrast, OpenDocument has a market share around 10% or so. Microsoft will have a hard time making people switch to Office 12, so take up of their format is likely to be very slow.
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Never underestimate the power of the dark side Posted Nov 28, 2005 19:35 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] By contrast, MS Office 12 XML is not even out. There is no current application that supports it. It's market share is 0%.Microsoft has extensive experience in going from 0% to 95% of the market share in no time. Think of word processors and web browsers.
Never underestimate the power of the dark side Posted Nov 29, 2005 21:14 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Microsoft has extensive experience in going from 0% to 95% of the market share in no time. Think of word processors and web browsers. It took few years in all cases. And in both cases competitors were other proprietary progarms so freedom argument was never ever raised (Netscape opened browser code when was was already lost and unlike OpenOffice 2.0 this code was unsable. Yes, Microsoft is not beaten yet - but this is toughest challege to date.
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