On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 15:06 +0100, Adrian Wells wrote:
ignore, laugh and fight stages. The use of Open Standards is certainly a high profile theme with BECTA these days but there is massive inertia in the system. Even with committed people now its going to take years,
How high profile?
Director level interested enough to come specifically to meetings and to start organising meetings to learn more. New CEO is being appointed so that could have an unpredictable effect.
MS-Office is/will(?) purportedly be using the open standard
MSO will use Microsofts claimed open standard. AFAIK there are no plans for MSO to support ODF which is currently going through the ISO process.
for office file formats, so that MS-Office and OpenOffice can play nicely together.
Both standards are XML based and so its likely that file interchange will be achieved with pretty good fidelity though not as good as if both used ODF as their default.
*** Will that be the same open standard that MS use for web development? So, a true open standard, or a special MS flavour of it? :D
Given current trends, its likely that if MS flavourise new products and break agreed standards, there is a good chance they won't get taken up. On that score at least, the gravy train is rapidly approaching the buffers. -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk