tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post8065782622409927283..comments2023-11-19T20:38:50.237-08:00Comments on Economic Logic: Microsoft gives finally inEconomic Logicianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10171296292101248614noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-5219853070709481972008-05-29T09:41:00.000-07:002008-05-29T09:41:00.000-07:00I think you are being optimistic.MS appears to hav...I think you are being optimistic.<BR/><BR/>MS appears to have done this because South Africa has appealed against the ISO's approval of MS's own OOXML format. This means they have to have ODF to sell to certain governments.<BR/><BR/>They will keep on trying to get OOXML approved, and if it is, they will drop ODF. It is also remains to be seen whether they will support ODF but default or if it will be a plug-in, and whether it will support all the functionality of a subset.<BR/><BR/>You might argue that OOXML will be an acceptable substitute if it is an ISO standard. It appears that it will be very difficcult for anyone other than MS to implement it without reverse engineering MS's software, because the specification contains things on the lines of "format this the same way as Word 2000 did".<BR/><BR/>There is good coverage of the shenanigans around OOXML's ISO approval on Groklaw.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com