Microsoft's bid for 'open' document standard is rebuffed

Sep/04/2007 23:08 Filed in: Mac
I'm glad to see that Microsoft doesn't look to be monopolizing the new "open office" document format standards, in my opinion it should be with a group like the OpenDocument Foundation, not Microsoft. Mark one up for a good practice.

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From the International Herald Tribune: The fight over the standard, while technically arcane, is commercially important because more and more governments are demanding interchangeable "open" document formats for their vast amounts of records. Currently, the only standardized format available to government purchasers is OpenDocument Format, developed by a consortium led by International Business Machines, which the ISO approved in May 2006.

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