[odf-discuss] Microsoft will now support ODF

[Christian Einfeldt]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 1:26 PM, marbux <marbux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matt Asay of Alfresco on the announcement:
>
> People are agog that Microsoft has announced support for Open Document
> Format (ODF), but I'm not sure why. This was a foregone conclusion
> once Microsoft figured out how to move lock-in above the file level to
> the content network.
>
> In other words, to Sharepoint.


But Sharepoint does not have the same broad reach as Microsoft Windows has
possessed up until now.  Sure, Sharepoint extends the integration of the
Microsoft stack, but its adoption is largely restricted to the enterprise,
and does not have the type of broad consumer AND enterprise AND smb adoption
that Microsoft Windows has possessed.  Am I right about that?
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