Urbane Tiger wrote:
Now that OOXML has been accepted by the ISO as a standard can we
expect OOo will adopt it its the preferred format.
Please no rants - there are plenty of soapboxes that are very much
more visble to the world at large than is this mailing list.
Some reading
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/13/1519216.shtml
The certification is not finalized yet. There is a lot of work before
it is finalized.
One issue with adopting OOXML is the patent issues. There are still
ties to closed source items. Hopefully ISO will resolve them before the
final approval.
Of course that depends on protests and further investigation into
irregularities in the process.
The biggest issue will be after ISO fixes the standard, will Microsoft
then support OOXML as the standard or do their own thing and not follow
the standard as always in the past?
If ISO makes changes and Microsoft follows their history, there will be
compatibility issues again. Note that there are many reports that MS
Office doesn't follow the present OOXML format as submitted for
standardization already.
So this brings the question, will following OOXML improve a bad situation?
--
Robin Laing
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