Standards Expert — "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test"

levell writes "Alex Brown, Convenor of the Ballot Resolution Meeting on OOXML, has written a blog post saying that Microsoft is failing the standards test. Mr. Brown notes: 'In its pre-release form Office 2010 supports not the approved Strict variant of OOXML, but the very format the global community rejected in September 2007, and subsequently marked as not for use in new documents — the Transitional variant. Microsoft are behaving as if the JTC 1 standardisation process never happened, and using technologies (like VML) in a new product which even the text of the Standard itself describes as "deprecated" and "included... for legacy reasons only"...' He also says that defects are being fixed very slowly and that 'Looking at the text, I reckon it is more like 95% that remains to be done, as it is still lousy with defects.' It's an insightful look at what has happened with OOXML since ISO approved it from someone who was not opposed to its becoming a standard."

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Re:and this is new news why?

[FudRucker]

do a clean install of XP, get SP3 & updates, use nLite to make an image without internet explorer, without outhouse express, without windows media player, (basically just the bare OS, no extra ms-software) then do a clean install with the nLite image, and install openoffice, java, firefox, Gimp, and any FOSS windows app that you need, i been using Linux exclusivly for years until i got an SDR (software defined radio) Flex SDR-1500 and there is no decent software to run it in Linux, wine does a pitiful poor job running it, so i went with XP. i dont love XP but it does the job where linux was failing at it.

Re:and this is new news why?

[ScrewMaster]

And be sure to watch the old episodes. You know, back when SNL was good.

I agree. It went downhill fast after the original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" left the show.