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The Microsoft Office Open XML is a primary file format to be used by the upcoming release of Microsoft Office (currently known as Office "12"). Microsoft claims that it will be an open standard, and has announced plans to submit it for ECMA standardization process. Microsoft also published "covenant not to sue" covering IP rights it has in the new format.

Other computer vendors have characterized it as an attempt to derail the Open Document Format (ODF), and have criticized Microsoft's standardization and other promises as falling short of what is needed to create a vendor-neutral open standard. In particular, they have criticized the incompatibility of its license terms with the GPL license used by a large body of Free and Open-source software.

Microsoft's Open XML format is similar to ODF, in that both represent a ZIP container for XML and other data files. However, it has been criticized on a technical level by members of the ODF community for reflecting the internal data structures of the word processing application more closely than that of the document structure, and of not using the XML data model as cleanly as ODF.


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