Microsoft Spokesman Says ODF "Clearly Won" Standard War

Elektroschock writes "At a Red Hat retrospective panel on the ODF vs. OOXML struggle panel, a Microsoft representative, Stuart McKee, admitted that ODF had 'clearly won.' The Redmond company is going to add native support of ODF 1.1 with its Office 2007 service pack 2. Its yet unpublished format ISO OOXML will not be supported before the release of the next Office generation. Whether or not OOXML ever gets published is an open question after four national bodies appealed the ISO decision."

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Re:That's It???!

[OzRoy]

Does it need to be anything more? Do you want a cake?

How about we just accept it for the victory it is and move on to the next battle.

Re:That's It???!

[Tubal-Cain]

Two phrases come to mind:
"The cake is a lie."
"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

Re:yay

[PinkyDead]

You obviously used OOXML to post your comment.

Re:Ok, this is the "embrace"-part...

[LighterShadeOfBlack]

... wait for the next phase!

YAY! They're going to extend the format! Microsoft and Open Source working together for a change, maybe this is the turning point for the world! I can't wait, I just have to skip ahead and know happens after that!

...Ohh... I see.

*cry*

Re:That's It???!

[Hordeking]

"Beware of Greeks bearing gifts."

Correction: "Beware of Geeks bearing .gifs"

Re:That's It???!

[at_slashdot]

Let me correct that for you: "Beware of Geeks bearing gifts."

Re:The end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft?

[Locklin]

And we know Office will render/produce ODF just as well as IE 6 renders standards compliant HTML.

The ODF version of this comment is best opened with Microsoft Office 2007 or higher.

Re:ODF Compatibility test utility

[Anonymous Coward]

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Actually, the price of freedom is $1.05

Re:The end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft?

[tobiasly]

however, I think that 1) ODF should be left alone (no EEE)

Hey, I'm using OpenOffice on my Eee PC right now, you insensitive clod!

Re:The end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft?

[Chris Mattern]

So, it can be the default, it's just not the default for it to be the default?

Finally!

[motang]

Well I for one am glad the ODF won...lets just hope Microsoft would implement it properly.

Re:The end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft?

[lbgator]

...but I'd be amazed if you weren't at least an order of magnitude out.

Yeah - it's probably more like 800%. Knock em if you want to, but give credit where it's due.

Re:Let's not get too excited!

[gawdonblue]

They wield their monopoly power and "defaco" status like a sledge hammer.

So this time the shit's really going to hit the nail?

Re:The end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft?

[Metorical]

The one time you can really add

4) Profit

You don't. What is the world coming to.

Re:The end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft?

[unjedai]

Word format documents probably hold 80% of the world's knowledge.

Funny - 80% of all statistics are made up on the fly. What a coincidence!

Re:Consumer vs Professional

[Anonymous Coward]

Considering that they have an open source codebase to work from, which wasn't true of Java at the time, they don't have much of an excuse to write a buggy implementation.

You seem to be suggesting that Microsoft needs an excuse to write buggy software.

Re:The end of vendor lock-in for Microsoft?

[orasio]

You have got to be kidding. I don't pretend to know what percentage of the world's knowledge is in .doc format, but I'd be amazed if you weren't at least an order of magnitude out.

Dude, percentages only go up to 100. You can't have 800% of the world's knowledge - that makes no sense.

Captcha - accuracy. How fitting.

You can. Only you need to be out of this world.