[OOXML:] Competition Optional
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| In previous posts I have pointed out numerous "features" in OOXML which
| cannot be implemented by anyone else but Microsoft. These stem from a variety
| of causes, including elements lacking definition ("lineWrapLikeWord6") to
| features that are tied to Windows or Office (e.g., Windows Metafiles) to
| items that are "merely referenced (OLE, digital ink) to items that although
| featured prominently in Office marketing materials, are curiously not
| mentioned at all in the OOXML text (scripts, macros, DRM, SharePoint, etc.).
| When these issues are raised, the typical response from Microsoft has been
| along the lines of, "Don't worry, these features are optional. You don't need
| to implement them. They are there for implementations that know what they
| mean. If you don't understand them, you can ignore them."
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/competition-optional.html
Here are his comments about the reasons why OOXML is madness.
My comments on the ETRM 4.0 draft
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| This was my response to the call for public comments on the Information
| Technology Division's (ITD) Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) 4.0
| draft.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/my-comments-on-etrm-40-draft.html
Related:
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| From: Bill Gates
| Sent Sunday, October 06, 1996 11:54 AM
| To: Bob Muglia
| Cc: Aaron Contorer; Richard Fade; Steven Sinofsky; Paul Maritz; Nathan
| Myhrvold; Brad Silverberg; Adam Bosworth
| Subject: Access, Internet studio, VB and other overlapping products
|
| ..
|
| Why is the difference between Internet studio and Access? I can't detect
| any reasonable difference. Internet studio has taken an approach of
| putting onto HTML pages the most ugly Microsoft garbage ever seen since
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| COM/OLE programming in C++ was declared a success in order to block
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| language invocation. i am still blown away by seeing all those ugly
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| PARAM statements in the HTML totally confusing anyone who tries to do
| anything. If something isn't part of the WYSIWYG output then it should
| be succinct and understandable. This was the opposite of that.
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/2000/PX02563.pdf
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