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Microsoft wins document format war
« on: April 02, 2008, 04:46:17 AM »


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Microsoft wins document format war
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2008, 06:59:48 AM »
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The process tested ISO to its limits as national bodies waded through the 6,000 pages of code that define OOXML, then dealt with more than a thousand points of order at the ballot resolution meeting, which was designed to help reach consensus.

ODF has just 860 pages of code, one of the reasons that many experts argue that translation between the two is too incomplete to allow true interoperability -- a concept that Microsoft has recently publicly embraced.


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