Internetnews.com: Microsoft’s Battle Lines Shifting to Office?

“Microsoft and Sun Microsystems may have ironed out their
differences long enough to get Sun to join the Web Services
Interoperability Organization (WS-I), but they already seem to be
redrawing battle lines over standards.

“On Wednesday, the Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards (OASIS), of which both Microsoft
and Sun are members, formed a new technical committee to advance an
XML-based file format specification for office applications,
intended to help standardize data for content creation and
management applications.

“The new OASIS Open Office XML Format Technical Committee will
base its work off of the XML file format specification designed by
Sun for its OpenOffice.org 1.0 project–an open source office
productivity suite which Sun hopes will help it break open
Microsoft’s grip on the office productivity application
market…”

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