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Microsoft Promises To Fully Support OOXML ... Later

Posted by Soulskill on from the sounds-like-a-government-timetable dept.

Raul654 writes "OOXML is the Word document format that Microsoft rammed through the ISO last year. Last week, we discussed a blog post by Alex Brown, who was instrumental in getting OOXML approved by the ISO. Brown criticized Microsoft for reneging on its promise to support OOXML in the upcoming release of Office 2010, and for its lackadaisical approach to fixing the many bugs which still remain in the specification. Now, Doug Mahugh has responded to Brown's post, promising that Microsoft will support OOXML 'no later than the initial release of Office 15.'"

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  1. They promised to support OS2 too by demigod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And Microsoft promised to support OS/2 after it sold 2 million copies.

    Never happened.

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  2. Re:Another Battle Lost Because MS Has No Mojo by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wow. I can't believe that MS wasted three years and $millions on this. MS really needs to take a look at what is going on and do something about it:

    * MS Tablet PCs fail
    * Windows Mobile fails
    * MS ISO Standard file format fails
    * Windows Live fails
    * Zune fails

    The bodies are getting stacked deep, there MS. Time to get back to what made you great and become hacker friendly again... and not in the sense that your OS and software have lots of security holes.

    Nobody looks forward to using Microsoft products. They use them because they have to. Even if you think that all the hype around Apple products is just advertising brainwashing and the fans are just drooling zombies, here's a thought: Microsoft has even more money to spend on branding and they can't even manage to inspire lukewarm enthusiasm.

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  3. Re:No it's not. by cheesybagel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You have to realize the biggest client for Microsoft is the government. Governments like standards compliance, even if the standards themselves do not mean a damn.