On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:51 PM, web at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MS is planning something.  That is the only reason for
> them to say they will support ODF, since they have
> pushed their format so hard as the only real choice
> for a ISO standard.

I dunno; I mean the article does say:

"On a phone call yesterday, Doug Mahugh, senior product manager for
Office, said Microsoft will also offer an API that will provide the
hooks for developers to plug support for other formats right into
Office."

Don't forget that "drama" like this will continue forever, as long as
everybody "working group" and their brother continues coming up with
their own personal way of making things portable ;-)

I don't think there's anything odd about it at all. And in 4 years
when <insert-your-favorite-committee-here> develops an entirely new
format rather than improving on existing ones, well, we can do it all
again. In the mean time, I say scrap *all* of this, go back, and come
up with some new extensions to RTF or something.

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