Star/OpenOffice XML Format To Become ISO Standard?

Emil Brink writes "According to this entry in XML spec co-author Tim Bray's excellent blog, the European Commission has formally asked Sun to make the XML file format used in OpenOffice.org into a true ISO standard. Hopefully this will cut down on vendor lock-in and lure people from using Microsoft Office. "

The best thing about standards...

[provolt]

The best thing about standards, is that there are so many to choose from!

lure people from using Microsoft Office.?

[Prince Vegeta SSJ4]

lure people from using Microsoft Office.

Then what will I do to get my morning Clippy Fix.

I know what would do it...

[Aceto3for5]

You know what would lure people away from Microsoft Office? Forget Clippy, get some nice ani Gif's of a bikini-clad Carmen Electra showing you how to properly format an interdepartment memo. Maybe an oiled up Brad Pitt for the ladies.

My mom loves it...

[fetus]

...once she's hears about an ISO standardized XML file format, she'll never go back to MS Office!

Starry-eyed optimism

[JessLeah]

"Hopefully this will cut down on vendor lock-in and lure people from using Microsoft Office."

*steals rose-tinted spectacles* Yoink!

Re:Why would this lure them away?

[Aceto3for5]

Microsoft Pricetag(tm) and Microsoft HardToOpenBox (tm). Those kinda features.

Re:Tell me...

[maxpublic]

Thats going to get the opensource community nowhere, because very few people working in it have visibility into what these enterprises are actually doing across the board, and have very little visibility into the kind of big guns MS is readying to be able to meet those needs.

Really? Exactly what do you base this assumption on? Are you personally acquainted with the people working on OpenOffice? Or did you just pull this out of your ass?

OO is, conservatively, five years behind the ball.

Ah, definitely pulling this out of your ass. I just love it when someone fronts a baseless personal opinion as fact; it immediately identifies the egomaniacs amongst us.

But not until, as I said, the people pushing the development of these applications understand where they need to go to really compete.

I'm pretty sure they have a much better idea of what needs to be done than you do.

The future isn't about office suites and file formats, its about having all the business applications working together, so the processes a business has to follow day by day can be automated.

Ah, you're in marketing! No wonder you think your own spew is canon!

Max

Re:planmaker? msoffice==expensive!

[Richard Dick Head]

Def #6: Moral adj. Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the actual evidence: a moral certainty.

Well, I don't know about you, but I get that warm fuzzy feeling inside when I pir8 a MSFT product.

Re:Why would this lure them away?

[Fla]

I actually pasted your post into Word just to see what it would suggest. I'll have you know that "yourself" should actually be "you", and "checker's" should be plain old "checkers".

So you see, Word's grammar checker actually can be helpfu... uh... nevermind.