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Story: OpenOffice may support OOXML

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Off Topic (slightly)

I came across the blog on ThinkFree's upgrade to be implemented on 7th April 2008.

http://blog.thinkfree.com/2008/03/24/quantum-leap-thinkfree-will-launch-the-new-service-site-on-april-7th-2008/

Amongst the improvements listed is the following:-

"6. Compatibility increased
-Read/write MS Office 2007 Documents (OpenXML format)
-Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) platform supported"

From which you will see that ThinkFree are incorrectly and inaccurately suggesting that .docx and the OOXML format are one and the same.

It occurred to me that this might be the next obfuscation by M$ to imply that OOXML is MS Office compliant or, vice versa, that MS Office is OOXML compliant, i.e. docx is an OOXML format, which it clearly isn't.

Thus promulgating the suggestion that you must buy Microsoft products to be compliant.

ThinkFree will apparently NOT be adopting ODF under direct or implied pressure from Microsoft. Some of the posts make interesting reading including ThinkFree's own statement that they can't inplement OOXML without M$'s goodwill and assistance.

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