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Microsoft confident of OpenXML success

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Company says there is still a long way to go before a final decision is made on the adoption of OpenXML as an ISO standard.

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tracyanne ·
Quoting:Other third parties have endorsed the standard, more recently contributors to the open source community, and those who appreciate the need for interoperability amongst mixed software solutions.


That would be Novell, Linspire and Xandros.
Abe ·
Quoting:more recently contributors to the open source community, and those who appreciate the need for interoperability amongst mixed software solutions.
One of the main reasons MS paid for those contracts

tracyanne ·
Actually it was so that they could say that. If Microsoft was truely interested in interoperability they would use and contribute to genuine open standards.
Abe ·
Quoting:Actually it was so that they could say that.


That is what I meant. Thanks for the clarification. Notice I said "Paid" for those contracts not for anything else.

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