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Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality

Posted by Zonk on 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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  1. SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Re:Now the waiting game... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oops, looks like I offended a zealot. 8 minutes from posting to '-1' mod isn't too shabby.

    Is it too much to ask people to actually discuss the point instead of modding down people they don't agree with?

  3. Re:Smoke and Mirrors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    >The fact that Microsoft continues to push this fake "standard" shows how little they care about their customers and how much their business is predicated on lockin.
    As opposed to those wonderfully written standards implemented by products that nobody uses that are being pushed "out of concern for the customer"? Their compassion for humanity is enough to move anybody to tears.

    Can't compete? Complain loudly about those who can! LOL

  4. Is it just me ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Am I the only one that read the story title as "Microsoft Defecating Some OOXML Functionality"?

    Certainly seems more appropriate ...

  5. Re:Smoke and Mirrors by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 0, Troll

    The fact that Microsoft continues to push this fake "standard" shows how little they care about their customers and how much their business is predicated on lockin.
    It is no more a "fake" standard than any other standard. It's a bad standard, but still a standard.

    And a little reminder, no one is obligated to use any "standard". They choose to use it, or choose not to use it. And there are a million "standards out there, many of which work the same areas.

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  6. Re:The debate is maturing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Danger, myminicity link.

  7. Re:I can almost guarantee this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You call this giant circle jerk around an anti-MS story a debate? It's about 2000 linux geeks all agreeing with eachother, all posting the same thing, just like the past 10 years, along with a few dozen trolls egging them on for fun. Real debate requires opposing view points, and occasionally new thoughts and ideas. Slashdot posting stories like this reads like Fox News pandering to their base with scary stories about mexicans coming to take 'der joooooooooobs.