At 9:41 AM -0400 5/22/08, Fred Holmes wrote:
In today's New York Times
...................
Open-Source File Format Is to Be a Part of Microsoft Office
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN
Under pressure from European regulators and others,
Microsoft is to say it will give customers the ability to
use documents in Open Document Format -- the main rival to
the Microsoft Word format.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/technology/22format.html?th&emc=th
It would not surprise me if Microsoft "extended and enhanced" this
standard into a new, Microsoft-exclusive "standard", just like they
tried to do with Internet Explorer's handling of HTML.
--
Roger
Lovettsville, VA
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