When Is a Standard Not a Standard? | Linux Today

When Is a Standard Not a Standard?

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GM
Glyn Mody
May 6, 2008

“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
…”


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Glyn Mody

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