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A couple of weeks back, I wrote about Microsoft Office 2007<\/a>, including the new OpenXML file format<\/a>. In a recent Windows IT Pro magazine network<\/a> WinInfo Daily Update, Paul Thurrott reported that the competing OpenDocument Foundation<\/a> has announced a plug-in for Microsoft Office that will let users open and save documents natively in the open-source OpenDocument format (ODF), which has recently been standardised and is supported by IBM and Sun Microsystems. The plug-in, which has been in development for about a year, makes OpenDocument documents seem as if they’re native to Office. Add Adobe’s portable document format<\/a> (PDF) and Microsoft’s XML paper specification<\/a> (XPS – formerly codenamed Metro<\/a>) into the mix and we have plenty of scope for document confusion.<\/p>\n

Both OpenXML and ODF are open standards that are freely licensed but it remains to see whether either will become dominant. I have a feeling that we’ll have competing XML-based document standards to grapple with for many years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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