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French Government IT Directorate Supports ODF, Rejects OOXML
jrepin writes: The final draft version of the RGI (general interoperability framework), still awaiting final validation, maintains ODF as the recommended format for office documents within French administrations. This new version of the RGI provides substantiated criticism of the OOXML Microsoft format. April thanks the DISIC (French Inter-ministerial IT directorate) for not giving in to pressure and acting in the long-term interest of all French citizens and their administrations. As Wikpedia notes, OOXML (Office Open XML) is not to be confused with OpenOffice.org XML.
(Also on the open-source office-document format front, OpenSource.com has taken a look at five open alternatives to Google Docs.)
Calling OOXML a "standard" was always a bad joke.
Way too much crap of "must work like this proprietary project", and too many uses of other proprietary things.
How the hell ISO allowed it to ever be identified as a standard still perplexes me.
Which means it's good when people see OOXML for what it is -- a proprietary format, which is inadequately documented, and has things which limit other people from using it.
Even Microsoft doesn't adhere to any standard interpretation of OOXML, because there isn't one.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
This is why I refer to it as MOO-XML, keeps it in mind that it belongs to Microsoft.