Anonymous

Lisbon

Engineer

"OOXML is the default format for files saved in Office 2007, so we might as well accept it will become a fact of business life, whether we consciously decide to adopt it or not."

No, it is not. Don't confuse things. This is exactly what MS wants to let you believe.

MS Office 2007 XML was created a lot BEFORE OOXML.

Then, they introduced some changes to make it a bit more palatable for international organizations, and presented OOXML for ISO.

Then, they introduced many other changes to accommodate some of the complaints received during the ISO process, so they got to the current OOXML revision, that is way different from the format used in Office 2007.

I don't think that MS will ever implement OOXML as the main format of Office, since the format is a complete mess.

Instead, they will probably add a "Save as OOXML" option, so they can comply with states and countries administrations that require that an office suite should be able to manage "standard" file formats to be used by them, but the suite will continue to save by default in a proprietary format (Office 2007 XML, or whatever comes after that).