On 5 October 2012 13:28, Yong Lin Ma <[email protected]> wrote: > That is an nice expectation. > > What do you suggest the AOO community do except improving AOO's > interoperability with ooxml? > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:18 PM, zhun guo <[email protected]> wrote: > > To Yong Lin Ma,my proposal is to get all office software to be convenient > > for common user, include native office software or cloud office > software. I > > like ODF,OOXML,PDF or HTML. And you? > > For me I'd like to see convergence to a single XML based open standard that supported full data fidelity when transferring information between editors whether on line, desktop or mobile. This is quite a long way off but odf could be the starting point to get there. Other than MSFT I can't see anyone wanting to adopt OOXML as the native format in other non-microsoft products for fear of lock-in and intellectual property issues. MSFT shows no sign of replacing OOXML with odf so probably getting very good filters between odf and OOXML is the best hope. If that was achieved it would make sense for any new software to use one of those two formats as its default so there would be pressure for convergence.
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