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Few of OOXML's Flaws Have Been Addressed
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "IBM's Rob Weir has done a study on how many flaws were addressed by the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting. So far, using a random sampling technique, he has yet to find a flaw that was addressed, making the upper bound a paltry 1.5%. Even so, he's found a number of new flaws, including a security vulnerability: OOXML stores passwords in database connection strings in plain text. At least there were no mistakes on five of the first twenty five random pages he reviewed."
Ballmer is that you?
Sucks that you can't read the article and assess the level of the bias he displays for yourself.
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
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"Does the poster have a chair?"
Not any more.....
OOXML's Flaws Have Been Addressed
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"IBM's Rob Weir has done a study on how many flaws were addressed by the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting. So far, using a random sampling technique, he has yet to find a flaw [...] there were no mistakes on [...] the [...] pages he reviewed."
There. Doesn't that sound better?
With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter. -- William Lloyd
What's wrong with publicly stating the religious body backing OOXML development? Microsoft is very fortunate to have so much support from Hell. Why, if they had to supply their own evil or go through commercial channels, the global evil reserves would dry up overnight.
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Considering they provide the email address and phone number of their media contact in that announcement.