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Story: OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF

Posted by: razer (Friday 23 May 2008, 11:03 AM)

Possible reasons

1. They can state that they will implement ODF and in the meantime will push OOXML (even current version). "You said that you would implement ODF where is it?" - "yeah, we have work-in-progress" - "but when?" - "soon, use ooxml for a while", "you're implementation is incorrect!" - "we'll fix it very soon - use ooxml for a while".

2. There are a lot of people who 're worried about format monopoly and backward compatibility issues. May be MS just realized that they can get the client who want ODF to buy MSO for it. Or some big corporates (may be governmental) of MS wanted ODF. It's better to support ODF and sell MSO+Vista than to look at that OOo+Linux migration. And that doesn't mean that MS is going to stop pushing OOXML.

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