Microsoft standards bid faces failure
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| Microsoft's bid to get its Open XML formats recognised as an
| international standard faces a delay for at least three months
| and could fail altogether, it emerged today.
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| The British Standards Institute, which represents the UK with
| the International Standards Organisation, has issued what is
| called a " contradiction" to Microsoft's specification.
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http://www.computeractive.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2174199/microsoft-standards-bid-faces
http://tinyurl.com/2yk773
Recent:
Open source lobby fury over Office format fast-track
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| The duo claim the process means Europe is being 'railroaded
| into accepting an 'inadequate' standard.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/102898/open-source-lobby-fury-over-office-format-fasttrack.html
http://tinyurl.com/37vouh
FFII opposes Fasttrack adoption of Microsoft OOXML format as ISO standard
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| The FFII has several concerns with the proposed standard. OpenXML
| relies on undisclosed patents, and undisclosed or incomplete
| licensing terms that make any independent reimplementation
| impossible or heavily risky. It obliges implementors to
| reverse-engineer the behavior of old closed Microsoft
| applications and formats. It uses non-standard formats for
| languages and dates, and specifies known bugs, such as
| treating 1900 as a leap year.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/FFII_opposes_Fasttrack_adoption_of_Microsoft_OOXML_format_as_ISO_standard
http://tinyurl.com/2qxk7p
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