pcworld.com— Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization.
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Sure, people can go on using the de facto standard. What it means though is that entities (mostly governments) that insist on using an ISO standard document format will use the ISO standard, de facto standard or not.
Yeah. The length of a Wikipedia article is a great way of gauging the importance of its subject. That's why Wikipedia has a longer article about Pikachu than it does about Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
No one remembers "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run"? Of course, that could have just been a rumor, but it illustrates a general attitude even then.
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. Regards,<a class="user" href="http://www.anarsist.org/">http://www.anarsist.org/</a>
init100Sep 5, 2007
@IntellEJentGood link, I'll use it the next time someone misspells that word. It is common enough to see the misspelling almost every day.
init100Sep 5, 2007
"bussniss"That's an interesting spelling of "business".
init100Sep 5, 2007
Sure, people can go on using the de facto standard. What it means though is that entities (mostly governments) that insist on using an ISO standard document format will use the ISO standard, de facto standard or not.
carzorstelatisSep 5, 2007
Yeah. The length of a Wikipedia article is a great way of gauging the importance of its subject. That's why Wikipedia has a longer article about Pikachu than it does about Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
carzorstelatisSep 5, 2007
Because they want people to be able to switch from Windows (and Office 2007) to Mac OS (and iWork)
metasquaresSep 7, 2007
No one remembers "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run"? Of course, that could have just been a rumor, but it illustrates a general attitude even then.
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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. Regards,<a class="user" href="http://www.anarsist.org/">http://www.anarsist.org/</a>