User: Rod Blackwood

Re:What's the Problem?

On: Office 2007 Fails OOXML Test With 122,000 Errors

The standards which can actually be implemented and have an open source reference implementation, such as the Open Document Format (ODF), will become the de-facto standards The man has a point. Back in 1984, SGML was fast-tracked by IBM and some major customers and it didn't get a fully conforming implementation until about 1990, by which time everyone had realised what a camel it was. By contrast, XML had amazing success from the start because (IMHO) it was a simpler, was a freely available standard, and had open source implementations from the start.