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OASIS OpenDocument format in Microsoft Office 12?
I just read this blog entry and this press release. Is Microsoft using the OASIS OpenDocument format in Microsoft Office 12?

If you look at the list of features in Brian Jones' blog entry (Open Format, Compressed, Robust) it really sounds like they are using the OASIS file format. Just read our old white paper about the OpenOffice.org file format on which the new OASIS OpenDocument standard is based. You will find a lot of similarities between what Microsoft is doing and what the OpenOffice.org file format has been doing since the release of OpenOffice.org 1.0 in May 2002.

I'm pretty sure Microsoft is not supporting the OASIS OpenDocument standard, but their approach validates that we did the right things when Sun together with the open source community and later the OASIS TC designed the OpenOffice.org/OASIS OpenDocument XML file format. Microsoft's reaction also shows that OpenOffice.org, the OASIS standardization and the EU recommendation is having some effect on them.

I think with their latest move, Microsoft showed their ability to support an XML file format that seems to be extremely close to the OpenDocument format. Now it's time to encourage them to do the real thing, i.e. support the OASIS OpenDocument standard instead of just doing it the Microsoft way.

Finally, here is a quote from a Reuters article:

"Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, as well as other major software companies, have been building XML capabilities into their products over the last few years. OpenOffice, a free software suite with document, spreadsheet and presentation programs, as well as StarOffice, an $80 version developed by Sun Microsystems Inc., both are XML-based as well.

Microsoft's current Office version retails for between $150 and $400, depending upon the edition. Betsy Frost, Microsoft's a senior marketing director in the Microsoft business group that includes Office, said that the XML capabilities will mainly benefit companies and corporate workers who need to tap into a variety of different databases."

And here is Tim Bray's comment.

( Jun 02 2005, 07:46:47 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [3]

Kommentare:

Hi, this is not related to this specific comment, but I have not been able to find any other OO.org developer to engage. I want to use OpenOffice base to create a database that would be accessed by 10-15 people and I need to know whether openoffice base provides record locking and concurrent access. Thanks.

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