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IT - Microsoft turns on the light: It begins to adhere to the standards!

First a clarification: A standard is a process, a method, an agreement is implemented and used by all. Standards have to be open and accessible design so that everyone can join. The main organization in charge of setting standards is the ISO .

A de facto standard is instead something that is widely used but not adopted by any international organization, the best example that we can do to a de facto standard are the classic Microsoft Office formats. Doc and. xls.

Constant fight by Microsoft to avoid that competition may affect its market share (also, why not, with a better product) has always been based on the fact that he was not given anybody know the inner workings of their sizes, now in fact de facto standard . Given the enormous amount of download, (50 million in one month according http://www.openoffice.org/news/ at March 26, 2009) OpenOffice.org, Microsoft runs for cover.

has released a new fact Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007 that adds support to the standard ISO format ODF, the format used by OpenOffice.org just (but also by others such as StarOffice , Koffice , IBM Lotus Symphony and Google Documents).

So if you're unlucky users of Microsoft Office 2007, download the update from the Microsoft site or wait for Windows Update do it for you. If you're thinking of buying Microsoft Office 2007 think about it, try one of the first products that I listed above!

This sets defeat to me that Microsoft wanted to create at all costs (and who knows with what costs in terms of human resources stolen from the updates and improvements that have already!) A new standard called OOXML, and which is that used natively by Office 2007. This new standard is most often responsible for the misunderstandings of last year in the field of document sharing. It is the format that generates the necessary competence. Docx and. Xlsx (respectively for Word and Excel) format that was accepted as an ISO standard after several waste and has been specifically designed to counter the adoption of the format used by OpenOffice.org and the others mentioned above, intent, with the release of this Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007, defined clearly failed.