Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jun 2008 21:09 UTC, submitted by Rahul
The battle between the OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's Open Office XML was long, and here and there rather nasty, but it appears as if we finally have a winner. The company behind OOXML already conceded by announcing it would implement support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2, but now it has also said it quite literally: ODF has won.
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2008-02-26
Lot of countries are not buying the MS office expensive vapourware. If ODF becomes a mandate standard, how can MS compete, since OOo is *the* software that follows that standard and its free. It will take a few years, the teh change has already happened. MS will never be able to compete with OOo in government (just on the basis of cost). btw a lot of people will fight to death if MS Office gets awarded a government contract