Eleven Trends From 2007
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| 7. Microsoft loses the first round in the Office Open XML standardization
| efforts. Microsoft’s attempt to push through a super-complicated proprietary
| standardization for an OSI rubber stamp failed. However, there appears to be
| little doubt that OOXML will be standardized at some point—whether it’s in
| February 2008 or later. Microsoft will not back down, and eventually its
| ruthless lobbying will succeed.
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http://www.sdtimes.com/article/story-20071215-13.html
Quote for the day:
"Gates looks at everything as something that should be his. He acts in any way
he can to make it his. It can be an idea, market share, or a contract. There
is not an ounce of conscientiousness or compassion in him. The notion of
fairness means nothing to him. The only thing he understands is leverage."
--Philippe Kahn
Related:
Microsoft moves the hot potatoes in a 'deprecated' basket
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| Moving the hot potato in an 'optional' annex is not a solution. The solution
| is to remove those horrors out of the standard, not to sideline with a
| solution that please the vendor.
|
| [...]
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| Where is Terminator to wipe out this deprecated stuff out of the ISO planet?
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-32339/microsoft-moves-the-hot-potatoes-in-a-deprecated-basket
Bait and Switch
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| Promises have been made. Assurances have been given. Commitments have been
| proffered. But far less has been delivered.
|
| [...]
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| So what Ecma is offering SC34 is nothing close to what was promised. Ecma is
| really seeking to transfer to SC34 the responsibility of spending the next 5
| years fixing errors in OOXML 1.0, while future versions of OOXML ("technical
| revisions") are controlled by Microsoft, in Ecma, in a process without
| transparency, and as should now be obvious to all, without sufficient quality
| controls.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/12/bait-and-switch.html
Microsoft won't commit to the open document standard it's pushing so hard
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| Now consider this from Brian Jones, a Microsoft manager who has worked on
| OOXML for six years. In July, Jones was asked on his blog whether Microsoft
| would actually commit to conform to an officially standardised OOXML. His
| response:
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| ?It?s hard for Microsoft to commit to what comes out of Ecma [the European
| standards group that has already OK?d OOXML] in the coming years, because we
| don?t know what direction they will take the formats. We?ll of course stay
| active and propose changes based on where we want to go with Office 14. At
| the end of the day, though, the other Ecma members could decide to take the
| spec in a completely different direction. ... Since it?s not guaranteed, it
| would be hard for us to make any sort of official statement.?
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| Now that?s cynical. After all this work to make OOXML a formal, independent
| standard ? a standard created and promoted by Microsoft, remember ? Microsoft
| won?t agree to follow it.
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http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3685&pagtype=all
Evidence of Microsoft Influencing OOXML Votes in Nordic States
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| "This is how a standard is bought," Bosson wrote later. "I left the meeting
| in protest - pissed off."
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Evidence_of_Microsoft_Influencing_OOXML_Votes_in_Nordic_States/1188335569
Microsoft Memo to Partners in Sweden Surfaces: Vote Yes for OOXML - Updated
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| He acknowledges that the rules might need to be changed.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070829070630660
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