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Microsoft doc standard meets opposition in China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-08-13 16:55
Ni said that the UOF and the ODF should combine to fight the OOXML since
the two standards have a significant integration potential as 70 percent
of them are the same and 20 percent of them are transferable.
"Although the MS Office has more than 400 million users globally, users
of StarOffice and OpenOffice, software based on ODF, have reached tens of
millions worldwide," Hu Caiyong told Xinhua.
Meanwhile, there are more than 60 million computers in China and 20
million are added every year, Hu said.
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"Considering the potential Chinese market and the maturity of the
self-developed software, the integration of the UOF and the ODF is quite
realistic and able to gather enough strength to fight the OOXML," Hu said.
China's decision is important since the OOXML standard will be rejected
as long as 11 out of the 30 ISO-JTC1 members vote against it, Hu said.
The OOXML has raised widespread attention in China. Enter "resist",
"Microsoft" and "document standard" in Baidu, the largest search engine
for the Chinese language, 112,000 web pages will show up.
Meanwhile, in an online survey conducted by the CCS, which has more than
100 organization members and more than 40,000 individual members, 6,400
votes were recorded against the OOXML with just 502 votes in support.
However, the OOXML has received other sources of support - the European
Computer Manufacturers Association has taken it as the European standard.
China Software Association secretary general Zou Bian also supported the
OOXML and said that it was "a very good thing" to support the OOXML to
become an ISO standard.
It will provide government organizations and common users multiple
choices on creating, storing and integrating their electronic documents,
he said.
Local independent software vendors can also develop applications on this
standard which will be beneficial for the progress of the software
industry, he added.
The Ministry of Information Industry, who is responsible for the vote
regarding the ISO, told Xinhua that it would not comment at the present
moment.
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