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Re: [News] OOXML Seen Winning Approval

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Moshe Goldfarb
<brick.n.straw@xxxxxxxxx>
 wrote
on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:32:30 -0400
<1ul35o6gkl9tf.1o4c0y3k2xyfn$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:30:21 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
>
>> Norway has changed its vote from "no" to "yes" as well.
>> 
>> http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article92563.ece
>> 
>> "Microsoft vinner - Norge anbefaler OOXML"
>> 
>> Hey Roy, "Microsoft vinner", says Norway. Oh poor Roy.
>> 
>> regards,
>> alexander.
>
> Get ready for Roy Schestowitz to turn up the oscillators
> on his tinfoil suit to overdrive!
>

I wouldn't worry about it.  OOXML, like Windows itself,
is already a standard -- a de facto one, to be sure,
but a standard nonetheless.

Presumably, development of OOXML readers for OpenOffice
is already well underway, if not already completed (a
Google therefor, however, showed nothing conclusive).
If OO can read Word format, OOXML shouldn't be that much
of a challenge, although any implementation reading it
might be a little more fragile than an implementation
reading ODF.

But never mind that.  OOXML will most likely be
far more popular.

I'd wish otherwise, admittedly.

As for what Roy does in his spare time -- that's up to him.

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