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:Congrats to the OOXML Team!
Congrats to the OOXML Team!
Apr 2, 2008, 21 :00 UTC (24 Talkback[s]) (8298 reads)

(Other stories by Brian Proffitt)

"Yes, Office Open XML is now (almost) a standard. Open source users are upset, which seems a natural course of events. Heck, I am too.

"But I also wonder if the preliminary approval of OOXML as an ISO standard might not be the biggest gift to Linux and Open Software... ever..."

Complete Story

Related Stories:
OOXML Formally Approved, Pending Appeals; But at What Cost?(Apr 02, 2008)
OOXML Standard Likely Approved; Official Word Tomorrow(Apr 01, 2008)
OOXML Woes Continue as Norway Files Protest with ISO Relating to its Own Vote(Mar 31, 2008)
Microsoft's Great Besmirching(Mar 31, 2008)


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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
...Because now, like it or not, you will ...   Wrong.   
Brandioch Conner
Apr 2, 2008, 21:35:49
 
Office 2007 does not support OOXML as pe ...   ISO OOXML   
MWC
Apr 2, 2008, 21:54:52
 
> Office 2007 does not support OOXML as  ...   Re: ISO OOXML   
Dale Pontius
Apr 2, 2008, 22:35:46
 
> > Office 2007 does not support OOXML a ...   Re: Re: ISO OOXML   
Kiaser Zohsay
Apr 3, 2008, 00:10:54
 
> Office 2007 does not support OOXML as  ...   Re: ISO OOXML   
Wrong
Apr 3, 2008, 01:04:21
 
While I wouldn't go as far as congra ...   Hope springs eternal   
JJS
Apr 3, 2008, 01:06:24
 
> Office 2007 does not support OOXML as  ...   Re: ISO OOXML   
Brian Wheeler
Apr 3, 2008, 01:06:59
 
ISO just may have set itself up for a st ...   OOXML rejections   
Joe Almeida
Apr 3, 2008, 02:50:01
 
The current battle ground where Microsof ...   Battle Ground   
Stomfi
Apr 3, 2008, 02:54:59
 
Everybody out there should push for the  ...   ISO should be investigated by anti-trust authoriti   
SM
Apr 3, 2008, 06:42:03
 
> ISO just may have set itself up for a  ...   Re: OOXML rejections   
Dennis Lee
Apr 3, 2008, 12:18:43
 
>...man has his price. If MS managed to  ...   Re: Re: OOXML rejections   
Dennis Lee
Apr 3, 2008, 12:35:57
 
To bad the US government does not have r ...   to bad the US government   
Fred Williams
Apr 3, 2008, 12:55:06
 
The US government has rules? ...   re:to(o) bad the US government   
Mark
Apr 3, 2008, 14:59:28
 
There is no compliance testing requireme ...   Compliance Testing   
Hans
Apr 3, 2008, 15:47:47
 
> What are you talking about? Office 200 ...   Re: Re: ISO OOXML   
Frank Earl (aka Svartalf)
Apr 3, 2008, 16:05:04
 
> To bad the US government does not have ...   Re: to bad the US government   
Frank Earl (aka Svartalf)
Apr 3, 2008, 16:12:27
 
> It's past 8:30 p.m. and I'm st ...   Re: Re: Re: OOXML rejections   
Bob_Robertson
Apr 3, 2008, 17:42:05
 
> What are you talking about? Office 200 ...   Re: Re: ISO OOXML   
Bob_Robertson
Apr 3, 2008, 17:45:34
 
> This is about getting an "Is ISO stand ...   Re: Wrong.   
Rob
Apr 3, 2008, 18:02:33
 
> Everybody out there should push for th ...   Re: ISO should be investigated by anti-trust autho   
beerintrousers
Apr 3, 2008, 18:08:39
 
After reading news about MSOOXML approva ...   A pyrrhic victory   
Finalzone
Apr 4, 2008, 01:14:12
 
> Many of those countries mandated FOSS  ...   Re: OOXML rejections   
blackhole
Apr 4, 2008, 07:03:38
 
the link may well give an insight into t ...   the sting in the tail   
beerntrousers
Apr 4, 2008, 10:00:22
 
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