Comments on: Is Microsoft Worried About the OOXML Appeal? http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/05/30/is-microsoft-worried-about-the-ooxml-appeal/ Keeping you in the loop with up-to-date Linux news. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:49:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: steve http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/05/30/is-microsoft-worried-about-the-ooxml-appeal/#comment-7250 steve Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:59:01 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/?p=310#comment-7250 I think they could embrace and extend ODF to some degree, if what we have seen with ISO branch stacking etc... is an indicator. Don't forget MS was a member of the web consortium, but standards did not stop the IE web extensions from fragmenting browser market. They are still adding there own standards to products like Sharepoint. So other browsers do not effectively work with it. MS is unlikely to play nice with ODF. I think they could embrace and extend ODF to some degree, if what we have seen with ISO branch stacking etc… is an indicator.

Don’t forget MS was a member of the web consortium, but standards did not stop the IE web extensions from fragmenting browser market. They are still adding there own standards to products like Sharepoint. So other browsers do not effectively work with it. MS is unlikely to play nice with ODF.

]]> By: Kevin Benko http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/05/30/is-microsoft-worried-about-the-ooxml-appeal/#comment-7227 Kevin Benko Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:22:13 +0000 http://www.linuxloop.com/news/?p=310#comment-7227 Some may consider me to be a pessimist. However, I think it is possible that if Microsoft does adopt the ODF, then their next goal would be to incrementally create a Microsofted-version of ODF. But, no.... Microsoft would never do anything like *that*, would they? Some may consider me to be a pessimist.

However, I think it is possible that if Microsoft does adopt the ODF, then their next goal would be to incrementally create a Microsofted-version of ODF.

But, no…. Microsoft would never do anything like *that*, would they?

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