21 May 2007  Microsoft's New Mantra: Choice Is Good    I think I
understand what Microsoft is up to.       Zaine Ridling said...
An excellent summary. Microsoft is choosing its words carefully,
taking crafted, surveyed political terms to frame their MS-OOXML
marketing. However, I'm confident that MS-OOXML will only be
relevant to Office 2007 and beyond, for those who choose to buy
and use that format. It will never be free of Microsoft, and
thus you'll forever have to pay for its use, as no converter
will ever be accurate to satisfy anyone with interoperability
needs.  The answer? Go with ODF now and save untold future
headaches. It's that simple.  glyn moody said...  Even though it
is that simple, it's not clear how well people will be able to
navigate through the increasingly muddied waters of this debate.
At least it won't be dull.