 Permalink for comment 299996 Member since:  Second, even if
OOXML weren't adopted as a standard, the fact that it is among
the default document save formats in the widest deployed Office
suite in the world gives it significantly more market power than
you think. The proprietary formats (.DOC, .PPT, .XLS, etc) are
still the widest-deployed formats in use today -- despite the
fact that they aren't "standards".  Just a small point. It's
worth mentioning that OOXML is *not* a document save format in
the widest deployed Office suite in the world.  The widest
deployed office suite probably lies somewhere between MS Office
XP and MS Office 2003. MS Office 2007 is most definitely *not*
the most widely deployed suite. It's likely it will be, but it
isn't yet.  Reply Parent Score: 1