If you have second thoughts about OOXML, then you can choose one of the many other applications that already support ODF. OOXML is supported by no applications at the moment, but Microsoft Office 2007 is close to supporting OOXML (it never will). IBM is among those who support OOXML and it claims to have already gone beyond Microsoft Office. The article about which covers this reminds us that:
ODF is now an international standard and being considered or favored by the large customers, notably national governments concerned with long-term archiving of digital information.
If you ever see claims of "industry support" for OOXML, remember this: Novell is being used by Microsoft at the moment in order to brag about OOXML support from "industry". Novell is mentioned by name. It's truly appalling but quite not as surprising as seeing the GNOME Foundation selling out in a similar fashion because parts of GNOME are a subset of Novell. Some of this is paid for.
Real standards are earned, not bought. 'Standards' which are being bought pass the financial burden off the (single) vendor and onto customers. It's a question of economics. OOXML would be too foolish to approach. ⬆
In our experience, GNOME is so malicious - some elements of it in particular - that it would launch multiple simultaneous SLAPP campaigns not only against journalists but also their spouses
Remember all this when the media says that Microsoft became like 10 times more valuable in those 15 years (from 400 billion to 4,000 billion in alleged "worth")
In the future I'll be able to tell how, when dealing with SLAPPs from Microsofters, their Microsoft services failed me and sometimes even blocked my contacts
