[TriLUG] Fwd: ODF to be Word standard

Tim Jowers timjowers at gmail.com
Thu May 22 08:25:27 EDT 2008


Awesome! Now I can stop attaching a PDF when I mail out my ODT. :-) Looks
like the market won.

TimJowers


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Cristóbal Palmer <
cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> For those of you following the document format wars...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Paul Jones <pjones at metalab.unc.edu>
> Date: Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:48 PM
> Subject: [labratz] ODF to be Word standard
> To: labratz at lists.ibiblio.org
>
>
> You may recall that I presented the Open Document Format at at least one
> faculty meeting. ODF is widely supported and will become as of Office 2007
> Service Pack 2 the native XML format for MS-Office according to several
> sources
> including PC World.
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146162-c,unresolvedtechstandards/article.html
>
> What this means is that begining with SP2 (due in Early 09), your Office
> files
> (Word, Excel, etc) will be in an open and fully transportable (no filters
> required) XML format. This is good news not only for those who use things
> other
> than Office, but also to those who want to parse documents, preserve
> documents,
> etc.
>
> Most sources say that OOXML aka .docx will be put on the back burner as
> even
> Office 7 is not fully compliant to the published standard.
>
> Back to your regular programing,
> Paul
>
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