[open-government] [School-of-data] question city council data (Diane Mercier)

James McKinney james at opennorth.ca
Fri Jun 21 19:42:33 UTC 2013


On 2013-06-21, at 2:49 PM, Immanuel Giulea wrote:

> Also to be noted is that XLS is not an open format. It's proprietary.

Old versions of Excel were proprietary, but since 2006 the Microsoft Office suite uses Office Open XML, which is an open standard, and includes .xlsx, .docx and .pptx files http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

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