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  • 02-18-2008 12:57 PM

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    New Open XML book

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    Microsoft has published a new booklet entitled “Your Documents, Your Choice: Open XML – A Policy Guide”.   The booklet includes overviews of:

    ·         recommendations on policies to support innovation and economic growth,

    ·         third party research on the economic and customer benefits of Open XML,

    ·         how governments across the world are rejecting tech mandates and enacting legislation that supports choice in the marketplace,

    ·         the facts (vs fiction) about Open XML,

    ·         how both ISO and Ecma clearly state there are NO IPR issues with Open XML, and

    ·         fact sheets on the ODF Translator, document archiving, and document format choice.

     

    Read more about Open XML.

     

    I am curious what you think as well!

     

  • 02-20-2008 6:10 PM In reply to

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    Re: New Open XML book

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    Some of the material in this booklet makes a very strong case for why Open XML should be ratified as an ISO standard. Ultimately, there is no reason -- technically or in terms of the standards process -- why Open XML should not be a standard. Standardization is about arriving at consensus, and there is significant interest in using and building upon Open XML. If we lived in a world where a single standard got locked into one area of technology, then we’d all still be using rotary phones. Even if you don’t want to use or implement Open XML, you shouldn’t be forced by government policy into using ODF or any other single format. Even the former head of the now defunct OpenDocument Foundation, first organized to support ODF, determined that ODF had gone off the rails and switched his allegiance to yet another format, Compound Document Format (CDF). See Gary Edwards post at http://openstack.blogspot.com/2007/10/cdf-and-grand-convergence.html.
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