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1. Comment - Microsoft to 'Open' Office File Formats

   (Jun 2, 2005 - 11:58 AM)

   This is good news indeed, if the assumption that MS can't screw up XML holds true.
   It would make interoperability much easier, and that's definately a good thing.
   Even though as a Linux power user, who often groans at how poorly Windows handles an older computer (I'm working on a P3 700 128M of ram that has Win2k. It's thrashing so much it's not pretty), I think it's a good move. Sure they're not using OpenOffice's standard, but at least someone in the FOSS community would spend the time to write a converter or something.
   I haven't tried OpenOffice lately, but I'd agree with either MS lovers or Linux lovers that 1.x was a piece of crap. It was slow enough to make me learn LaTeX. But don't think OO is small potatoes. Slashdot just posted that a school had migrated from MSOffice to OO, and OO can open older word documents better than MSOffice itself.
   Maybe I'll try out the OO beta sometime.