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•9mo 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•9mo 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.
It's feels like Google's funding of Mozilla.
rad_gruchalski•9mo ago
Yeah, whatever. I really don’t care and it’s not what I’m talking about.
All I’m saying: ODF is 20 years old, OpenXML is 18.5 years old. I’m not defending anything. Just saying that MS probably didn’t implement these in response to non-competition from some open source software.
jjkaczor•9mo ago
rad_gruchalski•9mo 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•9mo ago
It's feels like Google's funding of Mozilla.
rad_gruchalski•9mo ago
All I’m saying: ODF is 20 years old, OpenXML is 18.5 years old. I’m not defending anything. Just saying that MS probably didn’t implement these in response to non-competition from some open source software.