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Story: OpenOffice may support OOXML

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Let the confussion begin

So OOXML is ratified, who benefits? according to Microsoft the user because some things are missing in the ODF standard. but what we also get is confussion, a need for converters and more work for developers who wish to meet both standards?

"The whole beauty of a standard is you have one standard and everybody works to it," McCreesh said. "That's why the internet works so well — anyone can create a website. It would be difficult to see how the internet would work as it has if there had been two competing standards [rather than just HTML]."

Perhaps that's a principal ISO should have taken more seriously! now how long before another company comes up with its own standard?

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