The geek who took on Microsoft

Posted by dcparris on May 27, 2006 6:48 AM EDT
CNNMoney.com; By Jia Lynn Yang
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(FORTUNE Magazine) - In the early morning hours of May 3, a dramatic piece of news out of Geneva began caroming through the online world: At long last, Microsoft's lock on the $9 billion office-application business was facing a challenge. The development? An esoteric international standards body had approved a new file standard--called OpenDocument format, or ODF--for saving office documents.

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