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Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard?Posted Aug 15, 2007 0:55 UTC (Wed) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)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?
It depends what you mean by "support". Sure OOXML might remain as Office's native format but ODF will need to be able to be imported and exported easily and with good fidelity if Microsoft want to win some government's business.
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Is this is a joke ? Posted Aug 15, 2007 6:34 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Remember POSIX support in Windows NT ? It was requirement for "government's business". What Microsoft did ? It added support - but make it unusable (totally independent POSIX subsystem without ability to use most of Windows NT capabilities). Looks familiar ? Yup: that's exactly how Microsoft already did ODF: support is there, but it's more-or-less unusable. Enough to win contracts, not enough to actually use. Still - it'll create opportunity for other players (unlike 1980th when POSIX players bickered and Microsoft was able to overcame them with something cheap and "easy" today most ODF-players actually care about interoperability and one is free as in speech while "bigger cousin" is free as in beer... May be it'll be beginning-of-the-end for Microsoft... So it's easy to answer what happens if ISO will vote "no". The question is what will happen if ISO will vote "yes". My guess is that will be serious blow to ISO's authority (what good are standards if any big corporation can push it's own version) and it'll be beginning-of-the-end for ISO...
Shuttleworth: Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard? Posted Aug 15, 2007 7:38 UTC (Wed) by mbottrell (guest, #43008) [Link] And hence the rationale for Sun to release their 'Sun ODF Plug in 1.0 for Microsoft Office'
It is likely to become the defacto standard, even for those using Microsoft Office if they want true compatibility.
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