[odf-discuss] MOOX Backwards incompatibility drives MSFT to support ODF

[Christian Einfeldt]

Microsoft's decision to add support to Office 2007 for the Open Document
Format instead of its own OOXML office file format is due to backwards
compatibility issues with OOXML, it has emerged.

http://news.zdnet.com/2424-3515_22-202407.html

Pamela Jones, founder of Groklaw, said she would believe Microsoft was
moving towards open source only when it provided more proof it was becoming
genuinely interoperable.

"I wish I could wholeheartedly applaud the Microsoft announcement about
native support for ODF, but I can't," wrote Jones. "Of course, it's better
to have native support for ODF, no matter what motives may have influenced
Microsoft's announcement, and I'm glad about that for the sake of end users.
But it hasn't happened yet. Was the word 'vaporware' not coined for
Microsoft? In any case, I'm in the 'I will believe it when I see it'
category."


-- 
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point
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