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

  • Subject: [News] [OOXML] Legacy Office Formats Fail to Help OOXML, Render it Obsolete
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:08:19 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Descriptions of Microsoft Office binary formats

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| 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.   
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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.


Related:

Microsoft CTO: ODF is an 'elegant' standard

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| "What [Microsoft] is doing with OOXML is to further lock down [users] with 
| dependencies on Microsoft technologies as part of their business value 
| chain," said Pillay.  
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft-CTO-ODF-is-an-elegant-standard/0,130061733,339286096,00.htm


Microsoft quietly supporting ODF?

,----[ Quote ]
| The OpenDocument Society mentions in its newsletter that Microsoft might have 
| an "ODF standards group" within the Microsoft Office team. 
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41287/microsoft-quietly-supporting-odf


Countries adopting ODF (OpenDocument Format) Annual Report and Future Outlook

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| Following the trend at the national level, three regional governments - 
| Kerala (a state in southwestern India), Misiones (a province in northeast 
| Argentina), and Paraná (a state in southern Brazil) – adopted policies 
| requiring the use of ODF. The year ended on a high note, with the Netherlands 
| and South Africa officially adopting policies requiring ODF’s use by 
| government agencies, joining ten other countries that had already done so. 
| Norway required the use of ODF for all published, revisable documents on 
| government web sites.       
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http://fanaticattack.com/2008/countries-adopting-odf-opendocument-format-annual-report-and-future-outlook.html


ODF happening in Berlin

,----[ Quote ]
| This should be a good event to get the pulse on ODF adoption in Europe.
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http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=408


South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard

,----[ Quote ]
| The South African government yesterday announced the adoption of OpenDocument 
| Format (ODF) as a standard for government communications. 
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=$id&src=digg


Netherlands Picks ODF

,----[ Quote ]
| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will 
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for 
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.  
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html


Malaysia formally embraces open doc format

,----[ Quote ]
| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and 
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region 
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged 
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.  
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm


Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards

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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization 
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and 
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which 
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors 
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.    
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674


Opendocument_adoption

,----[ Quote ]
| Contents
| 
|     * 1 United States
|           o 1.1 Massachusetts
|                 + 1.1.1 References
|           o 1.2 Other states and organizations in the US
|                 + 1.2.1 References
|     * 2 Europe
|           o 2.1 EU Definition of an open standard
|           o 2.2 United Kingdom
|                 + 2.2.1 Bristol City Council
|           o 2.3 Belgium
|           o 2.4 Finland
|           o 2.5 Slovakia
|     * 3 Other governments
|           o 3.1 Australia
|           o 3.2 India
|           o 3.3 Japan
|           o 3.4 Malaysia
|           o 3.5 Peru
|           o 3.6 Vietnam
|           o 3.7 Other
|     * 4 See also
|     * 5 References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument_adoption

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