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Re: [News] [OOXML] Legacy Office Formats Fail to Help OOXML, Render it Obsolete

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Descriptions of Microsoft Office binary formats
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| These formats being available now rather removes the ?OOXML as documentation 
>| of Microsoft legacy formats? argument for the need for OOXML. Of course, they 
>| could have been made widely available before, but weren?t, for some reason.  
>| 
>| I utterly reject the need for OOXML as a standard because it is a description 
>| of the Microsoft Office 2007 formats. OOXML was released from ECMA within a 
>| month or so of Office 2007, so claiming any sort of ?legacy? for Office 2007 
>| is ridiculous.   
> `----
> 
> http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2091
> 
> Someone told me that Microsoft might already be moving on to ODF. Their
> so-called 'opening up' stunt does more harm than good to OOXML. It makes it
> redundant.
> 

ISO already has ODF.  There is no reason for a second standard to cover
exactly the same thing as the first one.

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