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Microsoft Will Support ODF If It Doesn't 'Restrict Choice Among Formats'

Publication:BetaNewsDate:Jul 17 2007
Reporter:Scott M. Fulton, III

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In a policy document specifically timed for release this afternoon, Microsoft's general managers for interoperability, Tom Robertson and Jean Paoli, make a play for ownership of the standards issue facing users of competing document formats, by saying the company would support ratification of its own Open XML format along with OpenDocument Format (ODF) as ISO standards, if and only if doing so would promote choice among the world's consumers.
 

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What a JokeSparhawk17 Jul, 10:34
Re: What a Jokenycace3617 Jul, 16:32
It all in the language...bim_bim17 Jul, 19:03
Translationpinniped17 Jul, 23:17

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