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`` However, Jason Matusow, Microsoft director of standards affairs, said in a statement: "The ODF format is limited to the features and performance of OpenOffice and StarOffice and would not satisfy most of our Microsoft Office customers today."

In the open standards forum (IEEE, ISO, IEC, ANSI, etc.) participating organizations and individuals who are expert on that particular field, get together and they fashion a standard that makes sense for all the participating parties in terms of technical feasibility, performance and even financial impact. Has anyone showed up from Redmond to PARITICPATE in the process? Have they reaised objections or made any suggestions to improve it? I do not think so.


``The process to move the standard to publication may come quickly, said a representative for the American Standards Institute, which represents the United States to the ISO. The spokesman noted that in similar situations, his organization has seen the process take from weeks to several months for a standard to be published. ''

After the standard is ratified (or close to it) whoever wants to support it can start working on conformant applications. MS is free to support it or not.

A large issue such as the format of open documents is expected to impact document processing in the long term and for large numbers of organizations and individuals. Why MS did NOT want to contribute and make the standard include their own parts that are more suited or fitting MSO?


This is hoe things work: people get together and DEBATE with each other based on technical, financial and othe issues. The final product may not be perfect (as nothing is) but at least it is as close as it can get to allow MULTIPLE VENDORS start supporting it so that the documents can FREELY flow among apps from different vendors. Then vendor products are selected based on the favorable Functionality/Cost ratio.

With the backwards and "me-grab-all" mentality MS cannot thrive in this environment. They can only rely on forcing their desktop users to also buy their server products and not let other vendors

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