An Open Document Standard for China

“Currently Microsoft is driving a big campaign to get its latest
document format Office Open XML (OOXML) approved as an ISO
standard.

“However, there is already an existing ISO document standard
called OpenDocument Format (ODF). This standard is a product of the
OpenOffice.org project and was created for exactly the same purpose
which, nowadays, Microsoft is trying to serve. So, why does the
world need two similar standards…?”

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