What do you think about making the Microsoft Office format an ISO (International Organization for Standardizat

Question

Did you even know this debate was going on?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070313-microsoft-office-xml-gets-fast-tracked-to-iso-standard.html

OOOPS! I think I may have gotten this in the wrong Catagory?

I don't know if this can get me into trouble here or not, but if you are in deed opposed to this you can "Vote" on a "petition" against it here:

http://www.noooxml.org/petition

It's the very first item on Google's list when you enter 'Microsoft Office format ISO standard' (without the ' s) and do a search on it.

Answer 1

Count me opposed. OOo has been gaining ground awhile (even IBM, Google, several states). My OPINION is that MS is just grabbing at straws to maintain its monopoly on a for-charge item when an open-source equivalent is available, and that online apps (with which MS had to "catch up") are the wave of the future.

I've been using OOo and, for the Writer part, it's every bit as powerful as Word, every bit as easy to use, produces files that are much more compact, creates all the formats (including .doc and exporting PDF).

OOo has everything Office has, except an Outlook component, and for that, there's Tbird or, don't most of us use online mail these days?

The version of MS Word that runs on a Mac is way behind, while OOo is closer to equal on all systems, so I'm not sure what the advantage of MS could be...