itworldcanada.com — "The Brazilian organization in charge of technical standards has decided to vote "no, with conditions" to Microsoft Corp.'s Office Open XML document format during an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) meeting on Sunday."
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niubaiSep 3, 2007
Oh noessss, give back my carnival / football / samba and mulatas :( Goddamn computers, stay out of the carnival and out of the girls' bikinis
honoredmuleSep 4, 2007
Who do you work for? I'm just curious about how you have the motivation and research behind you to make so many posts like this one. I mean I hate Microsoft, but not enough to expend this level of effort bringing strangers to my point of view.
prisoner24601Sep 4, 2007
Win or lose, Microsoft's manipulation of the ISO standards process has opened eyes and drawn attention at a level they could never have imagined. Hopefully pressure from not just standards bodies, but (even more importantly) business managers and individual users who are completely fed up with having their data locked into formats that only one vendor can properly read and write will finally free us all of this insane inability to truly take our files to whatever company has the best value software, not the one we have to live with because we're stuck with them.It's OUR data Microsoft! Not YOURS! Just because you can get some country like Equatorial Kundu to upgrade from "Observer" to "Participating" status 15 minutes before the ISO votes and stuff the ballot box we're not going to give up control of our "data destiny" to you! I can't tell you how much I miss the old Microsoft. The one that used to be so confident that their products were better than Lotus, or WordPerfect, or whatever that they knew they'd win in the market on FEATURES alone! Now you're just a shivering shadow of your former self, depending on "data lock-in" to maintain market share, not real innovation. Don't stoop to these pathetic manipulative methods. Return to Greatness Microsoft!
srg13Sep 4, 2007
The problem is that the format uses non-standard ways of doing everything, even though the ISO has standards for these (date, time etc.). It also has a lot of superfluous tags, like wordWrapLikeWord95 and so on, without giving any mention as to how Word 95 word wraps... It's just a really bad standard, and there's no need for it. If Microsoft was really trying to promote open standards (they aren't) they would have joined OASIS to help improve ODF.There's a good writeup of the problems at <a class="user" href="http://nooxml.org">http://nooxml.org</a> (some of which I have already mentioned)
danielzheSep 4, 2007
Pel?!Bunda!
danielzheSep 4, 2007
English, please.
init100Sep 4, 2007
13? I'd say 11. There are 41 voting countries, and at most 25% can vote no. At least 2/3 must vote yes for the spec to be approved.
goblindegookSep 20, 2007
I know that, thank you. I was replying to Daniel591992 who said it was Spanish.