Donnerstag Mai 26, 2005
"Oasis sets new standard for Office documents"
"While Microsoft in 2004 also met requests from the EC's Interchange of Data between Administrators initiative that it issue a public commitment to publishing and providing non-discriminatory access to the XML schemas, the company declined the invitation to submit the XML formats to a standards body, citing issues of maintaining backwards compatibility.
The OpenDocument format has already received the support of Sun, OpenOffice.org, IBM, Novell, and Stellent. Whether Microsoft will be added to this list remains to be seen but it would be hard for the company to maintain a commitment to standards if it does not."
The full article can be found here.
( Mai 26 2005, 02:57:16 PM CEST )
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