On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Jaime Tiongson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most of the standards set by ISO (remember the OSI standard?) were > superseded by new technologies. Same story here. The main proponent > (Microsoft) will probably not spend marketing money to promote OOXML knowing > that competitors like OpenOffice can easily support the OOXML unlike what > they did with the binary Office 97 and 2000.
"Easily" is the operative keyword here -- the thing with the OOXML specs is it is NOT easy to implement. Only Microsoft can implement it, should it decide to fully implement it in Office. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
