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

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

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.

Read more at: http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Will_Support_ODF_If_It_Doesnt_Restrict_Choice_Among_Formats/1181922127

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