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  25  <a href="../../../ISO_still_hope_to_fix_OOXML.html">ISO still hope to fix OOXML</a>
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  28   2009-08-08 14:00
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  33 <p>According to <a
  34 href="http://twerner.blogspot.com/2009/08/defects-of-office-open-xml.html">a
  35 blog post from Torsten Werner</a>, the current defect report for ISO
  36 29500 (ISO OOXML) is 809 pages.  His interesting point is that the
  37 defect report is 71 pages more than the full ODF 1.1 specification.
  38 Personally I find it more interesting that ISO still believe ISO OOXML
  39 can be fixed in ISO.  Personally, I believe it is broken beyon repair,
  40 and I completely lack any trust in ISO for being able to get anywhere
  41 close to solving the problems.  I was part of the Norwegian committee
  42 involved in the OOXML fast track process, and was not impressed with
  43 Standard Norway and ISO in how they handled it.</p>
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  45 <p>These days I focus on ODF instead, which seem like a specification
  46 with the future ahead of it.  We are working in NUUG to organise a ODF
  47 seminar this autumn.</p>
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  62  <a href="../../../Relative_popularity_of_document_formats__MS_Office_vs__ODF_.html">Relative popularity of document formats (MS Office vs. ODF)</a>
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  65   2009-08-12 15:50
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  69
  70 <p>Just for fun, I did a search right now on Google for a few file ODF
  71 and MS Office based formats, to get an idea of their relative usage.
  72 I searched using 'filetype:odt' and equvalent terms, and got these
  73 results:</P>
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  76 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
  77 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:282000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
  78 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:75600</td> <td>pptx:183000</td></tr>
  79 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:145000</td></tr>
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  81
  82 <p>Next, I added a 'site:no' limit to get the numbers for Norway, and
  83 got these numbers:</p>
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  85 <table>
  86 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
  87 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480 </td> <td>docx:4460</td></tr>
  88 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:299   </td> <td>pptx:741</td></tr>
  89 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:187       </td> <td>xlsx:372</td></tr>
  90 </table>
  91
  92 <p>I wonder how these numbers change over time.</p>
  93
  94 <p>I am aware of Google returning different results and numbers based
  95 on where the search is done, so I guess these numbers will differ if
  96 they are conduced in another country.  Because of this, I did the same
  97 search from a machine in California, USA, a few minutes after the
  98 search done from a machine here in Norway.</p>
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 102 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 103 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:129000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
 104 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:44200</td> <td>pptx:93900</td></tr>
 105 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:82400</td></tr>
 106 </table>
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 108 <p>And with 'site:no':
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 110 <table>
 111 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
 112 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480</td> <td>docx:3410</td></tr>
 113 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:175</td> <td>pptx:604</td></tr>
 114 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:186       </td> <td>xlsx:296</td></tr>
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 117 <p>Interesting difference, not sure what to conclude from these
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