ODF vs. Office Open XML
Here’s a great post about the performance of Open Document Format. As the author says, “Why even mess with OpenDocument when it’s such a huge liability in performance and offers no advantage in competing with Microsoft? Stick with Microsoft’s lean binary format but if you must have XML, use Microsoft’s open XML format since it’s still much faster than ODF.”
The comments on that post are also worth reading, and reflect a range of views on this topic. Thanks to my new colleague Don Campbell for referring me to this article.
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