Study Says OOXML Unsuitable For Norwegian Government

angry tapir writes "Microsoft's XML-based office document format, OOXML, does not meet the requirements for governmental use, according to a new report published by the Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (DIFI). The agency wants to start a debate over the report as part of its work on standards in the Norwegian government. (As we discussed a week ago, Denmark has already decided to choose ODF over OOXML.)"

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What's in a name

[Red Flayer]

DIFI's[1] report was written by Hypatia, a Norwegian consultancy specializing in standardization and software accessibility.

Strange, that the name of the consultancy is Hypatia. She, after all, was a mathematician-philosopher who ascribed to Plotinus's ideal... that empirical research is inherently flawed, and only logic and mathematics can achieve truth.

I mean, there's a clear relationship here that I find very amusing. Microsoft's OOXML, while sure to be empirically more interoperable with most users due to the pervasity of Microsoft Office, is not logically more interoperable due to the nature of what MS has done to the "open" standard.

Delicious allegory.

[1] DIFI is the Norwegian Agency responsible for the decision.

Re:What's in a name

[DoofusOfDeath]

If users of MS Office share documents, that's not interoperability since they all use the same software family.

Sure, OOXML works with both Country and Western!