Reiver_Fluffi Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 (edited) Microsoft is currently trying to make the ISO National Bodies believe that its Office Open XML (OOXML) format is a good standard. This website discusses why this broken proprietary standard should never be accepted by ISO. A decision by each National Standardisation Body in each country will happen somewhere during the holidays of July or August. Written comments should be sent before the end of June in most countries. Source: http://www.noooxml.org/ More important, the petition: http://www.noooxml.org/petition Edited June 28, 2007 by Reiver_Fluffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 You know, I think something should really be done about this bit: Office Open XML bit too close to Open Office!!!!! :D I find it funny that Microsoft are now trying to make standards of something that is sooo bad in the first place. I guess they obviously don't want to see the death of what they've supposedly spent so much time in writing, re-writing, bug-fixing continually, I could go on........... What's next? Open ActiveX? Open .Net? Open ASP? Microsoft should stick to closed-source, they've been doing it for years. Let's see what will win based on their different business philosophies, and then give back what ye stoleth in ye first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 Safe computing is next, where only MS software is "safe." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 (edited) Surely enough they won't ever issue "Open Vista", although it would be the quickest way out of the mess of a code they have created in that sort-of-an-OS! :P BTW, I'm not a Microshaft hater on principle- Win2K was a great OS, and XP unnecessarily complex and bloated, but still a good Win2K substitute. But I could not really care less about the other MS-OS reincarnations... Edited June 28, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted June 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 BTW, I'm not a Microshaft hater on principle- Win2K was a great OS, and XP unnecessarily complex and bloated, but still a good Win2K substitute.But I could not really care less about the other MS-OS reincarnations... I agree with your in terms of the individual merits of their software in terms of evaluating software itself. For me the problem is their business practices with regards to their attempts to control software, hardware and similar IT markets to the detriment consumers and other suppliers within those markets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 You think they'd give up on the monopoly idea. The amount of trouble they've had on that, yet they are still trying to control..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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