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Microsoft Standing Firm On OOXML ISO Vote

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tough-guy-huh dept.

christian.einfeldt writes "Microsoft has responded via the industry trade group ECMA to some of the thousands of criticisms of its submission of Office Open XML as an ISO standard. Open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver takes a look at those responses to see if Microsoft has made significant changes in either the substance of OOXML or the manner in which the OOXML specification will be maintained going forward. Ossendryver concludes that Microsoft's position has not significantly changed, but only hardened in place in advance of the Ballot Resolution Meeting which is to occur from February 25 through 29 in Geneva. While no one can say for certain whether Microsoft will succeed in having OOXML win the nod from the international community, Ossendryer thinks that Microsoft's firm stance is likely to backfire."

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  1. Re:well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I make a point of nat being a grammar nazi


    No kidding
  2. Re:Can we get some *new* FUD, please? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I give a new screw standards paper to the ISO. Isn't that what Microsoft submitted?
  3. Re:well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So what do we do?

    That's right: whenever you receive a .docx, .xlsx and other .*x documents, send them back, asking that they be converted into a readable format.
    Include a link for Sun's ODF plugin for MS Office, if need be.

    Fight fire with fire.

    I sometimes send an answer in ODF format :-)

    Thomas