Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 2nd Apr 2008 17:54 UTC, submitted by Almafeta
"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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In a private memo to the company's internal Office Group, 10 years ago, Microsoft head Bill Gates wrote: "Allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other people's browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities."
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/columnists/doubletake/furber080402....
Interoperability is simply not in Microsoft's interests.
MS Office earns them so much money that if they finally only manage to delay the adaption of ODF by a year or so because of all this OOXML confusion, then it was worth it.
Edited 2008-04-02 22:11 UTC