Microsoft Votes for Choice
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 23:38.
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has voted to support the addition of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.0 to the nonexclusive American National Standards list. The vote took place as part of a process managed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
"We have listened to our customers, and they have told us they want choice, they want interoperability, they want innovation," said Tom Robertson, general manager for Interoperability and Standards at Microsoft. "The American National Standards list does not include a number of document format standards in wide use today, such as PDF, .doc, RTF and HTML. The inclusion of ODF is just the beginning; we expect the list will grow in the future to reflect the choices customers already have in today's marketplace."
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ODF....then talks about OO XML.
ew. A press release for OO XML. Microsoft is heinous.
This is utter BS
Self-serving hilarity.
Microsoft must love ODF, and that's fine, but this is not about ODF
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| The press release is a PR stunt, sorry to say. The real message is
| in the middle where Microsoft tries to advance the case for OOXML.
| That is, this is OOXML promotion using ODF as the vehicle. I think
| this is obvious.
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| I'm not a cynical person by nature and I tried to watch my tone
| here, but a stunt is a stunt. I had hoped for better.
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| Finally, it?s excellent news that ODF appears to be on the way to
| being an American National Standard!
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