____/ Linonut on Tuesday 22 January 2008 12:59 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> The Standard Trolls
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>>| The point should be to look for examples of where OOXML is supported to the
>>| highest degree, to point out the best examples of high-fidelity interchange
>>| that your standard allowed. You would think that with so many people at
>>| Microsoft with "interoperability" in their job titles, that this would be
>>| obvious. I guess not. But don't be sad. You can always count
>>| on "supportadmin3" to cheer you up!!!
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>> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/standard-trolls.html
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> This shit is as funny as hell. XML products can parse OOXML! News at
> 11!
>
>
http://blogs.msdn.com/craig/archive/2008/01/19/ibm-and-google-support-for-open-xml.aspx
>
> I have read a number of blogs posts and articles recently that
> demonstrate the groundswell of support for the Office Open XML
> formats. Most impressive in this list of course is support by both
> Google and IBM (that's right -- I said IBM).
>
> and
>
> According to Brian Jones it appears that Google is in fact now
> effectively indexing Open XML files and in fact is also doing HTML
> translation on them to allow users to view data directly in a
> browser!
>
> I sure hope it works better than it does for DOC and PDF files.
>
> These guys are freakin' idiots.
I can just about read Dutch text, but I don't actually understand what the
words mean. But then again, by Microsoft's definition, I can speak Dutch.
>> Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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>>| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
>>| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
>>| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to
>>| think that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets
>>| pushed through.
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>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
>
> I think "Mole" is more appropriate.
The programme? I think Chimp would more appropriate although you can't
whack-a-chimp.
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