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In May 2007, IBM\u2019s Rob Weir made a point<\/a> of how few of Microsoft\u2019s Office Open XML documents were available on the Internet. Here are his figures from back then:<\/p>\n odt 85,200 docx 471 The ODF formats are those used by Open Office<\/a>, Star Office<\/a>, and Lotus Symphony<\/a>. Now that Office 2007 has been out for a while, I thought it would be interesting to repeat his test, using the same methodology (as I understand it), a Google filetype search. I added the macro variants to the list as this seems fair, though they don’t affect the total much: <\/p>\n odt 82,000 docx 87,400 Let me say at once, I\u2019m not sure this is significant. For one thing, I\u2019m suspicious of Google\u2019s arithmetic (in all search totals, not just these). For another, I reckon it is a mistake to put either format on the public Web: PDF, RTF, or even Microsoft\u2019s thoroughly well-supported binary formats are more fit for purpose.<\/p>\n Even so, it is quite a turnaround. What is particularly odd is that the ODF figures appear to have declined. Again, it could just be that Google changed its way of estimating the totals.<\/p>\n Incidentally, I doubt that this has anything to do with ISO standardization, especially considering that the current OOXML implementation in Office 2007 does not conform. It has everything to do with the popularity of Microsoft Office and its default settings for saving documents.<\/p>\n In May 2007, IBM\u2019s Rob Weir made a point of how few of Microsoft\u2019s Office Open XML documents were available on the Internet. Here are his figures from back then: odt 85,200 ods 20,700 odp 43,400 Total ODF 149,300 docx 471 xlsx 63 pptx 69 Total OOXML 603 The ODF formats are those used by … Continue reading More OOXML than ODF on the Internet, according to Google<\/span>
ods 20,700
odp 43,400
Total ODF 149,300 <\/p>\n
xlsx 63
pptx 69
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ods 16,600
odp 26,100
Total ODF 124,700 <\/p>\n
docm 1,440
xlsx 14,900
xlsm 738
pptx 31,400
pptm 1,300
Total OOXML 137,178<\/p>\nTechnorati tags: open source<\/a>, ooxml<\/a>, odf<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, ibm<\/a>, open office<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"