Few of OOXML's Flaws Have Been Addressed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @05:39AM from the digging-under-the-hood dept.

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."

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Re:Small bias? by Mongoose+Disciple · 2008-03-19 06:10 · Score: 1, Offtopic

So what's the basis for this suggestion of bias?

Spend five minutes looking at the article and the page it's on. To his credit, it's not something he tries to hide.

Exhibit A: a link in his sidebar to an article which refers to OOXML as "the document format from Hell."