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Re: [LUG] Microsoft petitioning to make XML Office format a standard...

 

I just emailed BSI and politely asked them not to make it a standard.

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 21:26 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/04/microsoft_office_standards_petition/
> 
> Quote from The Register:
> 
> "Microsoft is calling on the Great British public to join its campaign 
> to get the XML Office format adopted as an international standard.
> 
> The company has launched an online petition 
> <http://www.microsoft.co.uk/openxml/> encouraging the British Standards 
> Institute (BSI) to vote for ratification of the Open XML Format, used in 
> Office 2007, 2003 and XP, as an official ISO standard. The BSI is an ISO 
> member."
> 
> Thing is, there is already a standard isn't there.  The Open Document 
> Format.  Typical Microsoft, if they can't have their way they don't like 
> it.  Surely it would be easier for MS to just incorporate ODF 
> compatibility into MS Office?
> 
> Rob
> 
> 


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