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MS: "OpenDoc too slow!" IBM: "MS Open XML too heavy!"
Carol Haynes:
Interesting article on ZDNet ... get the impression MS don't want to have an Open Source format - but if there is it should be so complicated no one will ever be able to use it ?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3107
f0dder:
I'm personally pretty tired of OpenOffice (way too slow startup, even on my dualcore machine), and the later versions of MS Office (way too bloated). I'm considering playing around with http://www.lyx.org/ when I get the time, since I don't personally need MS Office interoperability.
Carol Haynes:
Hmmm ... did you read the article - nothing to do with OpenOffice :-[
f0dder:
Hm, I thought OpenDocument was what OpenOffice uses... XML and all that.
Anyway, 4081 pages does seem like a lot. I wonder if they have a complete description of XML in there as well, and not just the schemas :)
Carol Haynes:
I think the article is describing a project to develop an OpenDocument format. The 4081 page document is MS's submission on how such a format should be designed.
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