MICROSOFT drops support for OOXML
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 12:03.
Multi-trade International Corporation for Research of Office Software Open Format Technologies (MICROSOFT) has announced their surprise decision, that they cease to support OOXML document format (Office Open XML), acknowledging at the same time, that the ANSI-developed & supported TXT format will be a better, universal, solution.
The decision of backing up TXT format by MICROSOFT means, that the OOXML format name will have to be changed and its development & research will be passed on to another company or organization.
Darks Blanc, chairman of MICROSOFT acknowledges, that this decision is already causing anger and disapprovement among OOXML supporters.
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Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
ZDNet: Novell has said there is no end in sight to the continuing feud between supporters of OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's Office Open XML.
Microsoft has created its own proprietary document format, Office Open XML (OOXML), as a rival to the community-developed OpenDocument Format (ODF). OOXML is used in Microsoft's latest applications suite, Office 2007.
Despite some efforts by the two camps, ODF and OOXML are, for the most part, not interoperable, meaning documents that are created in one format cannot be successfully read by applications based on the other format.
According to Novell's vice president of developer platforms, Miguel de Icaza, the situation won't change in the foreseeable future.
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Do we really need too many formats?
I think that MS's .doc,.ppt,etc.. and the open document format are enough. I personally use open document format only and I save all my text documents as .odt files. I'm pretty satisfied with that.