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From: »Q« on 22 Apr 2010 15:11
In <news:836216Fk73U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> ora wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/19/oracle_charges_for_odf_office_plugiin/
> > Oracle is now charging $90 for the free Sun plug-in that teaches
> > Microsoft Office how to use the latest open document format.
>
> Too bad MS Office doesn't know how to do that natively.

Well, it does, sorta. MS Office supports ODF 1.0. Microsoft *had* to
make it support some open standard in order to satisfy government
contracts, and they were unable to make it fully support their own OOXLM
standard in time to ship.

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