Brian Jones is a program manager in the Microsoft Office Team. His main focus is on XML in Office and the Open XML File Formats in the 2007 Microsoft Office system. Brian has posted an update to his Open XML Timeline which gives a very good perspective on OpenXML in relation to standardisation, ODF and what you have …
… I posted on this earlier in the year, but I thought it was worth repeating, as I’ve seen a number of threads lately that question why Microsoft originally created Open XML rather than going with ODF. As you’ll see from the timeline below, both formats were actually developed in parallel, and had very different design goals. …
Go to Brian’s blog to read on : Brian Jones : OpenXML Timeline
kudo’s : Peter O’Kelly
