Star Microsoft's Office Open XML Becomes ISO Standard
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 2nd Apr 2008 17:54 UTC, submitted by Almafeta
Features, Office "Microsoft's embattled Office Open XML document format received ISO fast-track approval after receiving support from approximately 86 percent of the national bodies that participated in the vote. ISO approval will be broadly perceived as a sign of validation for the document format which has received widespread criticism from technical experts and standards advocacy groups."
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ODF camp
by WorknMan on Wed 2nd Apr 2008 19:04 UTC
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Although OOXML has many critics, it was also gained numerous supporters over the past year—including some who are directly affiliated with ODF.


Why does the ODF camp have such a problem with OOXML? Apparently, having 9,000 package managers each using their own formats (and about as many distros and window managers) is a good thing because choice is good, but having more than one document standard is bad thing?

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