Yeah, they just want to make sure they aren't the ones on the block with the average old office suite that can handle all of the formats that every other suite can use. I hope ooxml doesn't go through and that they just integrate odf compatibility. If ms just did that, i doubt ms office would drop in popularity and use and become one of those "average old other office suites". The reason for this is that when people hear of office suite, they immediately think of ms office. The many fewer educated others actually think of OOo and the gtk office suite (although this is slowly on the rise of awareness of existence). What usually happens when people hear office suite is immediately think of ms office, and occasionaly word perfect (which is just a word processor).
But, if i have to use ms office because of their one ****ty document format which will probably only work best with ms office (i wonder why), then it's of course going to be like that for everybody. More people will start using odf on a regular basis (mostly in other countries) while millions will be using ms office because that's all they know about or because that's what they'll be forced to use. I'm just curious about how countries that don't use the latin alphabet (russia, china, japan, etc.) are going to be able to use ooxml?
Another good thing ms made was really good optical mice, and in my opinion the xbox, and xbox 360 consoles. Speaking of ms making joysticks and gamepads, the xbox360 is an awesome gamepad. But, you can only use it in xp and vista, you can use it in other lower versions of windows as well if you get the superior XBCD360 drivers which can also be used in xp and vista. But, for using an x360 controller in linux, there was a driver made, but no instructions for how to compile, install, and operate.
