Compatibility Pack for Open XML passes 100 million downloads

June 27, 2009 17:52 by brettrobertsnz

formatdata Gray Knowlton notes in his latest blog post that the Compatibility Pack has now reached the 100 million download mark. This is an amazing number given that every download is manually initiated (i.e. it’s not pushed down automatically via Windows Update) and the total doesn’t take into account companies downloading one copy and then rolling it out to thousands of PC’s. Also of interest in the post is Gray’s analysis of the growth of the Open XML formats versus ODF (which are displayed in the table to the left). There’s a long way to go until the open format numbers surpass the binary format numbers but good progress is being made.

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