OOXML — The Apple Headache
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| First of all, I will like to point out that the format of documents produced
| by Microsoft Office 2007 is not OOXML (Ecma 376). Microsoft Office 2007
| documents contains, according to my sources, many elements not specified in
| Ecma 376, such as binary code, macros, OLE objects, ActiveX, DRM and
| SharePoint metadata.
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| [...]
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| I do not own a license for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, and I will not buy
| one either. It might be possible to open documents produced by Microsoft
| Office 2008 for Mac with iWork ‘08, iPhone or NeoOffice, but that is
| irrelevant. One of the major points with interoperability, is vendor
| independence. If I have to buy a license for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac,
| Microsoft has succeeded in creating a standard so difficult — not to say
| impossible — to implement, that users will have to buy Microsoft’s software.
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| As a final statement, I would like to point out that the allegations on OOXML
| beeing implemented in iWork ‘08, iPhone and NeoOffice are wrong.
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http://notebook.bekkelund.net/2008/02/13/ooxml-%E2%80%94-the-apple-headache/
Related:
Microsoft Breaks the [ODF] Plugins
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| Sun is having trouble because Microsoft is breaking interoperability
| deliberately through hi-jinks with the Dynamic-Link Libraries ("dll") in
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http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/microsoft-break.html
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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