Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?

Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?

Posted Aug 14, 2007 17:03 UTC (Tue) by mbottrell (guest, #43008)
In reply to: Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard? by cpm
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?

Microsoft adopt ODF... very unlikely.

Microsoft is used to controlling their fleet, handing over 'control' of their filetype to a 3rd party just doesn't suit their current business model.

It also drops their biggest reason users remain with MS-Office... vendor lock-in.

If you can write the same document (file spec wise) in MS-Office or OpenOffice/StarOffice... one would question why you would remain with MS-Office.
I can't see their is any benefit for Microsoft and it's shareholders to go down that path.

Sad .. but true.

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