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- <title>Relative popularity of document formats (MS Office vs. ODF)</title>
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- <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>Just for fun, I did a search right now on Google for a few file ODF
-and MS Office based formats (not to be mistaken for ISO or ECMA
-OOXML), to get an idea of their relative usage. I searched using
-'filetype:odt' and equvalent terms, and got these results:</P>
-
-<table>
-<tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
-<tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:282000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:75600</td> <td>pptx:183000</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500 </td> <td>xlsx:145000</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>Next, I added a 'site:no' limit to get the numbers for Norway, and
-got these numbers:</p>
-
-<table>
-<tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
-<tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480 </td> <td>docx:4460</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:299 </td> <td>pptx:741</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:187 </td> <td>xlsx:372</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>I wonder how these numbers change over time.</p>
-
-<p>I am aware of Google returning different results and numbers based
-on where the search is done, so I guess these numbers will differ if
-they are conduced in another country. Because of this, I did the same
-search from a machine in California, USA, a few minutes after the
-search done from a machine here in Norway.</p>
-
-
-<table>
-<tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
-<tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:129000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:44200</td> <td>pptx:93900</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500 </td> <td>xlsx:82400</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>And with 'site:no':
-
-<table>
-<tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
-<tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480</td> <td>docx:3410</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:175</td> <td>pptx:604</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:186 </td> <td>xlsx:296</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>Interesting difference, not sure what to conclude from these
-numbers.</p>
-</description>
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