When Is a Standard Not a Standard? May 6, 2008, 16 :30 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (4526 reads) (Other stories by Glyn Moody)
"Unlike many of my journalistic confrères, I did not seize on this when it came out: 'OOXML and Office 2007 Conformance: a Smoke Test,' even though the following tantalising result emerged:
"Conclusions?
"Such a test is only indicative, of course, but a few tentative conclusions can be drawn:
"Word documents generated by today's version of MS Office 2007 do not conform to ISO/IEC 29500..."