Google's official stance on MS OOXML and ODF
I found a link to an interesting and ironic article (in English) by Rob Weir on the topic of MS OOXML from the widely known in narrow circles of Sasha Bokovoy . But not only the article is interesting, but also a small and inconspicuous commentary on it:
Google position.
I don't usually speak for Google, but in this case I'm going to make an exception :-).
We don't believe that OOXML is suitable as an open standard. Google supports it in a very limited viewing capacity in search to allows users to find and view the information they are looking for. This hardly constitutes "support" or any agreement that OOXML is a preferred document type. We are fully behind ODF as the ISO standard document format.
Jeremy Allison. Updated (thanks iljava):
Which in translation sounds something like this:
Google’s position
I don’t usually speak on behalf of Google, but in this case I’m going to make an exception :-).
We do not believe that OOXML is acceptable as an open standard. Google supports OOXML in very limited searches in order to allow users to find the information they are looking for. This is hardly a “support” or confirmation that OOXML is given any preference. We unconditionally support ODF as the ISO standard for documents. [Jeremy Allison]
Which in translation sounds something like this:
Google’s position
I don’t usually speak on behalf of Google, but in this case I’m going to make an exception :-).
We do not believe that OOXML is acceptable as an open standard. Google supports OOXML in very limited searches in order to allow users to find the information they are looking for. This is hardly a “support” or confirmation that OOXML is given any preference. We unconditionally support ODF as the ISO standard for documents. [Jeremy Allison]