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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I too am leery about embrace and extend. But I'd love to see them implement ODF correctly, and the lessening of lockin that would accompany them doing so. So why would they? Among other possible reasons, picture the marketing coup should they be able to implement it better than OOo.
If they had a good ODF implementation and still had that accessibility stuff they are supposed to be better at (I wouldn't know) I can see that being a good marketing point. Whatever the possibility of that, as long as MS thinks they could do it, that could be a strong motivation for them.
And that would be awesome. Office suites competing on features, and on being the best at implementing standards? That would be great. So would winning the lottery. I'll be keeping a skeptical eye open but I am excited to see how it plays out. So someone remind me where WordPerfect is sitting on the ODF issue?