Friday, January 19, 2007

MS OOXML as an ISO standard?

I'm not much into how new standards are getting made at ISO, but the much discussed MS OOXML are now on track to becomming an ISO standard unless there is too many protests and problems with the format. I hope that it will get rejected by ISO because it is a bad format. The specification is HUGE and it is simply not possible for others to implement it! What good is a standard then? Furthermore, we already have a perfectly good standard called ODF which is already widely supported, but MS of course don't want to support that because it wants to keep the lock-in it's got on the marked. Here is another post about it:
The answer is to game the system. As part of this, the company has created (by itself, unlike Open Doc) a proposal for OOXML that is six thousand pages long, and then put it into the fast-track approval system with very minimal time for discussion and objection.

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