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Word support for Open standards?
LockedI was reading about the deal between Novell and Microsoft (see my other post) and it was mentioned in a FAQ that Word will support an “open” standard notable OXML. I thought XML was already on open standard? Who created OXML was it Microsoft? Why was another standard needed? Why doesn’t Word simply support ODF (Open Document Format)?
Here is a suggestion I have for the OpenOffice team: only support The early OpenOffice formats and the current and future Open Document Formats. All other formats can be imported/exported by an external app.
Why should the Open Community be corrupted by (what I suspect is) Microsoft’s OXML when ODF is fine/better? I have saved files from OOo 2.0 as Word 2003 XML and it seldom looks the same in Word 2003.