Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Microsoft

Microsoft's Open XML is not as bad as it has been made out to be, while the Open Document Format (ODF) has many "misleading" claims, according to an open standards activist.

Rick Jelliffe, an Australian, debunked various myths surrounding the ODF and the Microsoft-supported format when he was in Bangkok recently to attend a Microsoft-hosted event.

Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Microsoft.