Office 2007's Confusion Mode
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| So Microsoft clearly loves multiple Microsoft document formats! (Discuss
| among yourselves whether this love is amour de soi or amour propre.) But what
| about other, standard formats?
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/09/office-2007s-confusion-mode.html
Related:
[OOXML] Math markup marked down
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| It appears that Science, the journal of the America Association for the
| Advancement of Science (AAAS), itself the largest scientific society in the
| world, has updated its authoring guidelines to include advice for Office
| 2007 users. The news is not good.
|
| [...]
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| Uh oh. Not only cannot you not submit files in OOXML format, but
| you can't even use Office 2007 and save in the old binary formats.
| The choice to invent a new "Open Math Markup Language" rather
| then use the well-established existing standard, MathML, appears
| to be a serious flaw.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/04/math-markup-marked-down.html
In case you were wondering how big 6000 pages is: OpenXML/OOXML/whatever
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| Take a look at this photo from an OOXML workshop. (Read the blog entry
| too.) [Photo of a pile of 6,000+ pages]
|
| I don't know what your job is, but imagine your boss came to you and
| said "read this, fully understand it, implement it perfectly, and make
| sure that it fully interoperates with the software being produced by
| anyone else doing the same." Translate this statement to your own job
| and stare again at that photo. What do you conclude?
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| * You'll have lifetime employment trying to implement the spec.
| * Your boss comes from another wacko parallel universe.
| * This is a joke if not a travesty.
| * Your job evaluation will not be very good next year.
| * There is no way you can fully do the job without
| reimplementing significant portions of Microsoft's product
| portfolio and therefore you will run into intellectual
| property problems. (Don?t think that's a problem?)
| * Microsoft is trying to change the rules on what is a standard
| and who can implement it.
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http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1634
Microsoft playing three card monte with XML conversion
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| Gary Edwards of the Open Document Foundation, a leading member
| of its technical committee, says Microsoft is playing proprietary
| games aimed at controlling XML file formats and preventing the
| Open Document Format from gaining a foothold.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=959
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