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

[Russell Ossendryver]

 HI Norbert

Thanks for reading my blog post. Sorry you dont quite agree with everything
but since I am not a responsible journalist I can be a bit more sensational.

I have issues with ECMA that they should propose these resolutions now, when
really these "repulsive aspects" should have been addressed in thier review.
But they are in a rush to get fast-track and did not do thier job. I also
think MS is totally directing all the activities of ECMA TC45.

What MS is trying to accomplish is buy themselves some time, get the ISO,
get as maany as posible old .docs archived converted to .docx with the
"deprecated features"  and then try and become more compliant. That way,
they still have complete control over all the .docs.
>We should really get started with producing the planned "problem report"
document that will make >clear what the main issues are.

Would be happy to give my input when ever possible.

Best
Russell
On Dec 28, 2007 8:37 AM, Norbert Bollow <nb at bollow.ch> wrote:

>  > 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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