For most of us, file formats are right up there with printer drivers in terms of fun. Certainly, they’re important, but not something you’d look to for excitement. And yet that is precisely what the battle between the OpenDocument Format and Microsoft’s OOXML is providing. And I’m not just talking about the dry, intellectual excitement derived from comparing well-formed XML tags: this is a no holds barred, down-and-dirty mano a mano fight over the soul of document standards.
Link: Linux Journal
