Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Test | Linux Today

Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Test

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 21, 2008

“Word documents generated by today’s version of Microsoft Office
2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under
development by the International Organization for Standardization,
according to tests run by a document standards specialist.

“In a blog posting last week, Alex Brown, leader of the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) group in
charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard,
revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the
latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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