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Jeremy Allison On Microsoft, OOXML and Standards

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the weighing-in dept.

An anonymous reader writes "OOXML is already Microsoft's "de facto" standard as implemented in Office 2007, so when would any changes arising from the Comments Resolution meeting in February 2008 be put in place? According to Jeremy Allison's latest column, when last minute changes were suggested for the CIFS standard, which Samba exists to disentangle, "the response came back from Microsoft that although the fixes were valid, unfortunately the code was already written and was going to be shipped in the next service pack. End of discussion. It wasn't even in a shipping product yet, but the specification was determined to be unchangeable as they didn't want to change their existing code.""

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  1. Money Quote by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "My own favorites were Cuba voting "yes" to the fast-tracking of OOXML, even though Microsoft is prohibited by the US Government from selling any software on the island that might even be able to read and write the new format, and Azerbaijan's "yes" vote, even though OOXML as defined isn't able to express a Web URL address in Azeri, their official language."

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  2. Re:I must have missed something HUGE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The number of servers metric is close to useless anyway. We have nearly 500 exchange servers plus another 200 domain controllers (100k employees worldwide) and only one Linux machine... However, the Linux system is on three of the most expensive pieces of hardware you can even imagine, backed up by an immense SAN, and serves apps and data to every user in the company concurrently.