Microsoft plans to open Office XML formats
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Could it be that Microsoft is starting to open up a little? If you are taking in to account the ideas that they have with their Office XML formats, then yes. Yes they are…
Joe Wilcox weighs today’s news that Microsoft plans to open up the Office file format and offer the technical specs to the ECMA early next month:
Just as OASIS polishes off OpenDocument v1 and some governments beat their desks for OpenOffice, open source and open standards, along comes Microsoft saying that it wants to establish its formats as legitimate standards. Kaboom.
Microsoft says this may take up to a year or more to get done which puts this on track with the Vista launch. Loren wonders if this will allow access to Word ink comments? [Read the rest]
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