Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:08 UTC
Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones, whose work has centered around the Open XML document format, now says the so-called format war with OpenDocument is officially over. The winner, he says, is both. Jones made the statement in a blog post over the weekend following the release by Novell of an Open XML translator for OpenOffice. The plug-in enables the free, open source productivity suite to open documents created in the Microsoft format, as well as saving OpenDocument files into Open XML.
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2005-07-10
I encourage everybody to read this article.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-30.html
Miguel de Icaza has actually spent much time in development of office like applications like Gnumeric, well at least more than any of us, and seems to be a pretty level guy and calls it how he sees it.
I know the pundits are going to bring up that he works for Novell and Novell has a deal with Microsoft, but take a look at some of the articles on Vista and you will find he is no fan of Microsoft. But he also isn't an OS Kool-Aid drinker.
Read it, it is very educational on the lackings of ODF, http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-30.html