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ODF / OOXML concerns
While the "governments only" group of office-apps users may sound small and specialized, as compared to the corporate world at large, it should be remembered that file format requirements by governments affect -- among many others -- court filings, submissions of pharmaceutical testing results & petitions for approvals, bidding for contracts large & small, etc. Any of these affect large corporations? An interesting site to look at is http://www.eionet.europa.eu/software/open<ocument. Americans easily forget that most of the world uses A4 paper and metric measurements, and while the world is big enough for dual standards, they must both be accommodated.
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Until MS has to conform to a real Standard  LittleGuy | 03/05/07
Of course......  linux for me | 03/05/07
Ya gotta love it!  LittleGuy | 03/05/07
Declaring victory  Yagotta B. Kidding | 03/05/07
No truce, it is rather obvious that MS wants to claim the war is over and  DonnieBoy | 03/05/07
Wow, and it's just as bad as the MCAN translator!  zaine_ridling | 03/05/07
So why the lack of comments here? Especially, NOBODY willing to defend MS??  DonnieBoy | 03/05/07
No-win scenario  Yagotta B. Kidding | 03/06/07
I agree 100% with what you said, but still, does that mean that all of the  DonnieBoy | 03/06/07
ODF / OOXML concerns  dhumphrey@... | 03/21/07

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