On the free authoring of documents

18Sep07

• Google docs now supports presentations
• IBM Lotus Symphony, based on OpenOffice, is now free

In other words, some really powerful companies are taking some pretty extreme measures to try to begin to overcome Microsoft’s dominance in the office software market. I doubt that Office will ever die, but if it loses enough market share, Microsoft might be forced to start supporting other file formats–like the standard ODF!

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