> As a developer like you said, we don't care much about that are the underlying technologies. > File formats are something like TCP/IP today, not many people understand fully the architecture. I think you should start caring about this technology. If I were to elaborate and correct your analogy, we aren't talking about the ...

Hi Patrick,  Have you tried OpenDocument Format instead of Microsoft Office Open XML (MSOOXML)? ODF is a vendor neutral specification of office documents which are natively supported by OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Novell OpenOffice, Corel Wordperfect, Gnumetric, KOffice, AbiWord, Lotus Notes, IBM Workplace, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, ...