I agree. We already have a perfectly good standard for document formats (that can and will be further developed in an open manner).
Microsoft should just accept new market situation it's in and try to make best of it. Their eagerness to fuel the format war shows, in my opinion, how insecure they feel with their own products compared to alternatives. That is not just the way business works anymore, less so in the future (at least I hope not).
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I totally agree. Now they can say that OOXML is an ISO standard when some one (making it decisions) is knowledgeable enough to ask about it.
I agree. We already have a perfectly good standard for document formats (that can and will be further developed in an open manner). Microsoft should just accept new market situation it's in and try to make best of it. Their eagerness to fuel the format war shows, in my opinion, how insecure they feel with their own products compared to alternatives. That is not just the way business works anymore, less so in the future (at least I hope not).