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document formatsdocument formatsPosted May 29, 2007 0:11 UTC (Tue) by njs (subscriber, #40338)In reply to: document formats by job Parent article: OSBC: The Microsoft/Novell panel
Please don't use the phrase "OpenOffice XML". It's totally ambiguous. Did you mean OOXML (the microsoft format, short for "Office Open XML"), or ODF (the open format that OpenOffice and many others use, short for "Open Document Format")?
Confusion between these names harms the free world's efforts to distinguish them; it's unfortunate that Microsoft's format just happens to have such a confusable name...
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document formats Posted May 29, 2007 1:51 UTC (Tue) by JesseW (guest, #41816) [Link] And the similarity of names is hardly an accident, I'm sure. It'd be really interesting to get copies of the memos in which Microsoft folks discussed the naming of their attempted-lock-down XML format (as it should really be called...)
document formats Posted May 31, 2007 10:16 UTC (Thu) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link] I very much doubt that the confusion "just happened" to be that way — I would bet that Microsoft deliberately chose the name to be as ambiguous as possible, to increase perceived legitimacy from less knowledgeable users.
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