[OpenISO] The Deprecated “Smoke Screen” of MS Office Open XML (OOXML)

[Norbert Bollow]

> The Deprecated "Smoke Screen" of MS Office Open XML (OOXML)
> http://fanaticattack.com/2007/the-deprecated-smoke-screen-of-ms-office-open-xml-ooxml.html
> 
> In an effort to win quick converts to its bid to have Microsoft Office Open
> XML (MOOXML) accepted as an ISO standard, *Microsoft is deprecating parts of
> its widely-criticized
> MOOXML<http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/New%20proposed%20dispositions%20extend%20progress%20in%20addressing%20all%20National%20Body%20comments.htm>
> *.

Hmm... I don't think that I quite agree with that blog post.
The statement from Ecma sounds to me like they're genuinely
working on improving some of the most repulsive aspects of
the OOXML spec.

I don't think that it's fair to call that a "smoke screen".

To me it looks like people trying to do their job in a
reasonable way.

Of course, even with those changes OOXML will still be far
from being a reasonable standard.

We should really get started with producing the planned
"problem report" document that will make clear what the main
issues are.

Greetings,
Norbert.


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Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch>                      http://Norbert.ch
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