{"id":619,"date":"2007-03-14T10:25:50","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T15:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/microsoft-says-the-format-wars-are-over\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T15:27:04","slug":"microsoft-says-the-format-wars-are-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/microsoft-says-the-format-wars-are-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft says the format wars are over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones, whose work has centered around the Open XML document format, now says the &#8220;format war&#8221; with OASIS OpenDocument is officially over. The winner, he claims, is both.<\/p>\n<p>Jones made the statement in a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/brian_jones\/archive\/2007\/03\/02\/openoffice-support-for-the-openxml-formats.aspx\" >blog post<\/a> over the weekend following the release by Novell of an <a href=\"http:\/\/download.novell.com\/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58%7E\">Open XML translator for OpenOffice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think this reply in the blog&#8217;s comments sums it up nicely:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There never was a war between ODF and OOXML.  To declare that the war is over is therefore disingenuous. ODF was designed to be a comprehensive standard for document interchange.  To that end, it has been adopted as an ISO standard and mandated by a growing list of organizations and governments around the world.<\/p>\n<p>OOXML, on the other hand, was designed to fit a particular niche.  It does that reasonably well, although even a cursory reading of the spec will reveal its poor design and even poorer architecture.  There is little likelihood that it will be adopted as an ISO standard.<\/p>\n<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/brian_jones\/archive\/2007\/03\/02\/openoffice-support-for-the-openxml-formats.aspx\">MSDN Blogs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/brian_jones\/archive\/2007\/03\/02\/openoffice-support-for-the-openxml-formats.aspx\">OpenOffice support for the OpenXML formats<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones, whose work has centered around the Open XML document format, now says the &#8220;format war&#8221; with OASIS OpenDocument is officially over. The winner, he claims, is both. 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