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

[James McKinney]

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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