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Sun, IBM Continue Open Standards Double-Speak

User 165495 anything to do with Lotus is crap. We are using it at work and everyone complains about i t - it is 10 years behind MS office!!!

As for OOXML whether is approved or not as a standard it is going to become one as .dox format for examle it is one. I am saying .doc format it is standard because every business document I have to send (or a CV) it is required to be in .doc format - so that says everything, the consumers decide what they are going to use not anyone else!

Using MS .NET you can easily manipulate document saved in this format (one simple example: you can display them as a web page), or for that matter any other programing language on any platform, all the developer needs to know is XML :)