What’s Up, .DOC? ODF, OOXML, and XML in Productivity Applications
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Industry debate about the relative merits of OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Ecma 376 Office Open XML (OOXML) highlights the significance of the productivity application market shift from binary and proprietary file formats to vendor- and product-independent Extensible Markup Language (XML) models. The competitive stakes are huge, and the related political posturing is sometimes perplexing. In this summary of the "What's Up, .DOC?" overview published in January, Research Director Peter O’Kelly introduces ODF, OOXML, and related World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, and project their implications for future productivity applications.
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