Will it be join ‘em or beat ‘em? Will it be OASIS ODF or MSOffice O(X)DF? Microsoft has laid out its strategy (the white paper is at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/developers/fileguide.mspx#top
but appears to be loosening things up with its recent “covenant not to sue” (http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/covenant.mspx). ECMA has given its blessing, but the article that makes this of particular interest is from today’s NYTimes. Move over pdf, here comes some form of odf-ness…
The Times article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/technology/03open.html?th&emc=th
More info on Open Document Format, ECMA, Office Open XML at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Open_XML
Microsoft Office Open XML (odf)
March 3, 2006 by Hope Greenberg
