Linux and Windows are close to each other to meet the "conversation" era in the software industry.

Recently, a "big debate" has been held on electronic document standards. The question is: can OOXML become an international standard. The core issue of document standards is the so-called "document format", which is a recognized specification for storing electronic information (text description files ). In a computer operating system, the use of computer programs (programming languages and related algorithms) to achieve this specification is called a "Implementation" of this specification ". Obviously, whether a document format (the core of the Specification) has a specific "Program Implementation" does not affect the (performance) evaluation of it. Two people play "Blind games ",

Recently, a "big debate" has been held on electronic document standards. The question is: can OOXML become an international standard.

The core issue of document standards is the so-called "document format", which is a recognized specification for storing electronic information (text description files ). In a computer operating system, the use of computer programs (programming languages and related algorithms) to achieve this specification is called a "Implementation" of this specification ". Obviously, whether a document format (the core of the Specification) has a specific "Program Implementation" does not affect the (performance) evaluation of it. This is why two people play "blind chess" without having to watch the Board (the so-called "Implementation of playing chess. Document Format, playing with rules, has nothing to do with the specific implementation (the so-called "Layout Algorithm" also belongs to the scope of program implementation ).

Today, it is an objective fact that the basic structure of human information is "diversified" (the so-called "heterogeneous. Both free software and private software have made considerable achievements. For example, the global Internet is almost based on a series of standards and regulations, not private to a certain enterprise, and mostly implemented by free software. Today, Microsoft is no longer a standalone platform for desktop applications. For example, the Free Software Ubuntu package has dared to "Compare" Microsoft's Desktop products and say "hello" to them. It is worth mentioning that Ubuntu 8.04 can even use a small "Wubi" tool to run the entire Ubuntu system as an application in Windows (without independent Hard Disk Partitions ), the two are "intimate ".

From this perspective, looking back at the past, various electronic document standards are constantly evolving, Microsoft's private document formats are constantly evolving, and open ODF's predecessor is constantly evolving, this will happen in the future. Especially for multimedia (text, images, voice and video) information, how to "Standardize" them, how to use an electronic document "format" to reasonably regulate them, old man, at present, the development level of human (IT) technology has not reached that step. There are a variety of technical standards (here referred to as document standards) is also a "helpless" choice. The Microsoft OOXML specification, no matter whether the degree of openness is "adequate" or whether the defects are "tolerable", is at least a document specification described in XML, it can be understood, understood, criticized, "communicated", and separated from Microsoft. In the future, humans will face a "Mixed Source" ("Mixed Source"). There are a variety of document standards. At this stage, it is also a "must" to make them "symbiotic ", let them "talk" to bring them together to an ultimate goal: a globally unified document format,

China is a "great country" and has a huge domestic market and great development space. Her IT development plan must be quite "robust" (known as "robust" and "Robustness" in the industry), able to withstand the storm, and be afraid to "Sit down and talk "?

Let's cheer up and eliminate all "pessimism", overcome the "fear of Microsoft" mentality, and calmly face the future "Dialog age ".