Hi Mr Kracked MS office openxml was accepted as a standard last year
They loaded as many MS supporters as they could into the voting body but were unable to get the required majority at the first attempt At the follow-up Ballot Resolution Meeting however it was passed without the issues raised being resolved Several countries have objected and many including Brazil, South Africa, Venezuala have expressed dissatisfaction at the ISO not following their own procedures and are considering whether there is any point to their continued membership of ISO Basically M$ used their power to achieve their ends Ken ________________________________ From: Web Kracked [mailto:webmas...@krackedpress.com] Sent: 18 December 2008 12:25 To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] MS's Open Format and Sun's ODF filters Has anyone read anything about the following or have experience? I have not looked into this lately but what is the word about MS's attempts with their Open Formats going to ISO standards? I know that there was a lot of flack over the voting to start the ISO process and the "in the know" people said the MS would not likely support the "final" ISO version of their own proposed open document standard. Then there was some flack about needing documentation about backward compatibility to older file formats that MS does not want to give up. So, is MS's baby of a world wide open format standard a dead cause? Also, it has been a while since I looked at and downloaded Sun's ODF "filters" for MS Office. How well does it really work and where can I send the hard nose MS users to get it. I know it would be easier and better if they just used OOo, but there are people. . . . I found when I first came across Sun's ODF filter, it was better to just open/save the MS .doc file in OOo then having MS Word use the filter system. How is the filter now, and where is it to be found (easily)? In my opinion, I would prefer MS users to go to OOo than use the system Sun has. But "some" hard nose people will not even look at free software claiming if it is free, then it cannot be good. Their attitude is the more you pay for a product the better it must be. Laugh, Laugh. So I just want to have options. New York State is moving towards open file formats for inter-agency documents and those the public will have access to. Not like the Library of Congress, that went and started using Office 2007 formats to store public documents. It was just as bad as them changing the file format of their highly compressed large format images. Half the time they were unreadable by my software that supported that JPEG2000 format. The same goes with their use of .docx format. The public would need Office 2007 to access public documents. MS had a hand in that, I suppose. So, any one have any news on MS's attempt to give the world a "better" open file formats? Or, how about the Sun ODF filter? How well does it work, now? Tim L. retired and tired of MS.
