Jeremy Allison On Microsoft, OOXML and Standards

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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Re:Two ways?

[WED Fan]

So, if the metric shows Linux gaining ground its valid, but if the metric shows Windows dominating, the numbers are suspect? And we can find all sorts of explanations?
This is like the metrics for the Anthro Global Warming crowd. Any study that suggest geo, solar, and other causes is dismissed. Any bad math is dismissed.
Yes, MS is dominating and not really losing ground. Downloads of Linux are up, but that does not indicate use, it indicates curiousity. Everytime there is a significant release by any of the distro groups, I download it and build a VM out of it, but for use, we stick to W2K3, SharePoint, Office, Visual Studio, and the like. We have a few Unix machines, a few Linux machines, but those are what we call seagull servers. A contractor was contracted to develop a solution and they flew in, shit in our server room and we have to provide the support for this one off system. All because some congressman made a deal to funnel money to them. I love working for the Government. Meanwhile, we provide office and MS SQL (reports, AS, IS) supportable solutions that bypass these seagulls and provide more robust functionality.

By all means, don't deal with the argument, just mod it down.

The fact is, the previous poster didn't like the metrics, so dismissing them is like saying, we don't like the recount in Florida, or we don't like what the General had to say, or we don't like the vote on "American Idol", or we don't like 9/11 report...Well, face it, you guys don't like a lot of things and think something is up when what is reported doesn't jive with what you THINK should be.