[A2k] Reuters: Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standard

Rishab Ghosh rishab@dxm.org
Tue Feb 26 15:03:02 2008


i don't think it's being ignored... the entire focus of the opera-inspired =
european anti-trust case agains microsoft that's just started is internet e=
xplorer's improper implementation of web standards.

-rishab

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:57:13PM -0400, Taran Rampersad wrote:
> No one seems to be talking about the elephant in the middle of the
> table. Microsoft could actually support other open standards. We know
> why it doesn't, but that doesn't mean that it should be neglected in all
> of these discussions.
>
> Thiru Balasubramaniam wrote:
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >Standardisation of Open XML, which is the default file-saving format
> >in Microsoft Office 2007, would allow other companies to build
> >products using the file format and simplify file exchange between
> >different software suites.
>
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