Comments on: OOXML Comments Closed to the Public? http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/12/03/ooxml-comments-closed-to-the-public/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ooxml-comments-closed-to-the-public The Magic of Open Source Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Dave http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/12/03/ooxml-comments-closed-to-the-public/comment-page-1/#comment-335 Dave Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:44:22 +0000 http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/12/03/ooxml-comments-closed-to-the-public/#comment-335 Why oh why can't Microsoft tell me why we should even be having this discussion. OOXML is clearly broken beyond repair - but that's not even the point. We don't need another ISO standard for productivity software data storage. ODF is already THE standard. Why can't Microsoft just work with ODF and accept the challenge of developing products that (ge this) compete on their merits? Clearly, OOXML is a last ditch effort to save a failing cash cow. The other major attempt to shore up the MS Office monopoly is SharePoint. Stay away from both - they're poison. As a side note: the whole "backward compatibility" farce in OOXML is a total red herring - a standard should describe how data should be - not how it was in bunch of obsolete, totally separate non-standards. Microsoft isn't fooling anyone - perhaps all this noise is designed to distract people away from some other nefarious Microsoft activities? Or maybe it's just to keep us busy so we don't have time to enumerate the misleading half-truths surrounding the "resounding successes" of Vista and Zune... Heh heh. Dave Why oh why can’t Microsoft tell me why we should even be having this discussion. OOXML is clearly broken beyond repair – but that’s not even the point. We don’t need another ISO standard for productivity software data storage. ODF is already THE standard.

Why can’t Microsoft just work with ODF and accept the challenge of developing products that (ge this) compete on their merits? Clearly, OOXML is a last ditch effort to save a failing cash cow. The other major attempt to shore up the MS Office monopoly is SharePoint. Stay away from both – they’re poison.

As a side note: the whole “backward compatibility” farce in OOXML is a total red herring – a standard should describe how data should be – not how it was in bunch of obsolete, totally separate non-standards. Microsoft isn’t fooling anyone – perhaps all this noise is designed to distract people away from some other nefarious Microsoft activities? Or maybe it’s just to keep us busy so we don’t have time to enumerate the misleading half-truths surrounding the “resounding successes” of Vista and Zune…

Heh heh.

Dave

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