rodgerdean.org » Open http://rodgerdean.org/blog This blog is about Yours Truly Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:01:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 OOXML is a Standard http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/04/02/ooxml-is-a-standard/ http://rodgerdean.org/blog/2008/04/02/ooxml-is-a-standard/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:07:11 +0000 Rodger http://rodgerdean.org/blog/?p=11 God help us all. The news has been leaked that OOXML ECMA 376/ISO/IEC DIS 29500 is now a standard as reported by Reuters.

KDE on their blog did an April fools joke yesterday declaring that the OOXML is a standard and supported it after receiving a annoymous donation of $10,000 from a North American Company. The problem is the joke has turned into a nightmare, as the news, which was due to be released on Wednesday has been leaked.

OOXML is a standard and we now must show everyone that it is not a standard to even touch. Let alone let your Grandmother or pet dog look at. It will be interesting to see how it is modified and and how the standard improves and evolves into something remotely interoperable within Microsoft’s own product range formats, let alone other platforms.

Well I have made up my mind. As for me and my house will stick with ODF.

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