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DesktopLinux: Microsoft's draft Open XML straitjacket arrives

May 19, 2006, 12:30 (12 Talkback[s])
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"The Intermediate Draft 1.3 of Microsoft's Open XML office document standard has been released by Ecma International.

"At 4,000 plus pages, a 6.7MB Microsoft Word document, the Open XML draft standard is less of a standard and more of a painfully detailed description of how Open XML could be used to display almost any possible Microsoft Office document...

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