Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 28, 2007 @04:28AM from the dotting-the-is-crossing-the-ts dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "According to open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver, Microsoft will be deprecating certain functionality in its Microsoft Office Open XML specification. Ossendryver says the move is an attempt to quiet critics of the specification in the run up to the crucial February ISO vote. The Microsoft-led industry standards group formally offering OOXML confirms in a 21 December 2007 announcement that issues related to the 'leap year bug', VML, compatibility settings such as 'AutoSpaceLikeWord95' and others will be 'extracted from the main specification and relocated to an independent annex in DIS 29500 for deprecated functionality.'"

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Re:Smoke and Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · 2007-12-28 17:41 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Don't be a jackass. No one is holding a gun to your head to use any standard. And no government has "mandated" OOXML. This is all just a bunch of anti-M$ fan boys frothing at the mouth. So typical, and the primary reason no one takes you dirty hippies seriously.