There's a pretty complimentary review of Symphony at Dougit Design which Ed Brill has also commented on. This quote made me think for a few moments:
However, the big question for the future is: will Microsoft's proprietary file format continue to matter? The Open Document Format is the international standard format, and is catching on quickly in the rest of the world. (Besides the Microsoft world, that is.)
That got me thinking for a moment. ODF may be the current standard, and it's certainly catching on in some public sector organisations, but at the grass roots level, I've not seen much of it. I've only once sent an ODF file by email. That was to someone at IBM quite recently, figuring that he would be able to read it. But IBM is part of his "rest of the world", in this ODF context. How quickly will the Microsoft world he refers to shrink? As fast as the IE world has given way to Firefox? Sadly I rather doubt it. Comments (7)
Mick Moignard January 9th, 2009 09:45:52 AM