Well - at the very least it forced Microsoft to come up with their version, which is better than the previous binary formats and can be handled by open-source API's.
rad_gruchalski•10h ago
OpenXML was released 18 years ago (December 2006). It has since become an ISO standard.
I wouldn’t be so sure that MS was reacting to non-competition. It’s not a feature one can implement in a week.
homebrewer•8h ago
Their own products do not implement the standard as described, it's not really a standard in a practical sense. You can implement it by the book (and OO developers tried that), but documents produced by your suite will not work properly in MS Office.
jjkaczor•11h ago
rad_gruchalski•10h ago
I wouldn’t be so sure that MS was reacting to non-competition. It’s not a feature one can implement in a week.
homebrewer•8h ago
It's feels like Google's funding of Mozilla.