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Microsoft claims ODF is "too slow" for use
"There's simply no Open XML product on the market yet, to compare performance," Marcich said. "ODF is supported and implemented not just by OpenOffice, but by multiple applications including StarOffice, IBM Workplace, KOffice, Abiword/Gnumeric and Google Writely. All these applications have different performance behaviors."
Of course, there's no reason why both standards can't be accepted and implemented. However, it's unlikely that MS would be happy with dual standards.
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Slow? How can you compare!All I can say is that saving an M$ Word document with OpenOffice takes more time than saving in the OpenDocument format. It's normal, it has to convert it. The next Office is supposed to support ODF I think? Well if Microsoft told this because the next Office beta was slower to open ODF than Office documents, it's mostly because of the conversion.
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Microsoft have a plug-in for converting ODF. They've not said whether they plan on releasing it though.The performance claims might be fair enough, but then again PCs are always increasingin performance so it's a moot point.I think they'd also find that games perform differently on different PCs. Does this mean the game is slow also?
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