Thursday, December 07, 2006
Battle of the open standards
Microsoft's OpenXML document formats are moving toward approval by Ecma International with surprising speed, according to this CNET article. The next step would be ISO certification, which will take the better part of a year. Alliances and rivalries form and harden over OpenXML vs. OpenDocument, as described in a very interesting article. Whether there's a clear winner or not, we all win from Microsoft's move from undocumented Word and Excel formats to schematized XML.
Labels: XML
# posted by Gary McGath @ 9:27 AM 
