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Durusau: "OpenDocument, among others, will lose if OpenXML loses."

Patrick Durusau has posted another thoughtful contribution to the document formats standardisation debate:- Who Loses If OpenXML Loses? As national bodies meet to cast their final votes on OpenXML, a checklist of who loses if OpenXML does might be helpful...

And there's more!

Yesterday I noted that the Office Binary <-> OpenXML translator project had started on SourceForge. Brian Jones has now also blogged about this but adds some really interesting extra details. 1. Ecma " will modify DIS 29500 to include an informative...

Mapping the Office Binary File Formats to OpenXML

Brian Jones provides the text of one of Ecma's responses to the comments received from National Standards Bodies to DIS29500 that pertain to mapping from the binary formats to OpenXML:- We believe that Interoperability between applications conforming...

Burton Group report on ODF/OOXML will "ruffle some feathers"

Earlier today the Burton Group released a free (registration required) report authored by Guy Creese ( bio ) and Peter O'Kelly ( bio ) and titled " What’s Up, .DOC? ODF, OOXML, and the Revolutionary Implications of XML in Productivity Applications " Guy...