document formats
document formats
Posted 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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