[OpenISO] Even if OOXML becomes an ISO standard, Microsoft wont promise to abide by it.

[Norbert Bollow]

Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre at ffii.org> wrote:

> That is odd, since the Microsoft Switzerland representative gave us his
> mail address and promised to handle any deviation from the standards as
> a bug in Office.

I understood that statement as saying that if "MS Office" does not
conform to the Ecma-376 spec, they promise to handle that discrepancy
as a bug in their software.

AFAIK they never promised to honor any ISO/IEC decisions to change
the OOXML spec in ways that Microsoft does not like.

Greetings,
Norbert.


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