So where are all the OOXML documents?
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| So with all this evident love for Microsoft Office 2007, why is it that
| 6-months later there are only 63 OOXML spreadsheet documents on the web,
| something like 0.3% of the number of ODF spreadsheet documents? How can there
| be 300 companies supporting OOXML and only have 69 OOXML presentations on the
| web? (This is starting to sound like when I say I support 30 minutes of
| aerobic exercise a day. I don’t do it, but I sure support it!)
|
| OK, I know the argument about “dark matter”, that Google indexes only the tip
| of the iceberg, that there is a lot of data squirreled away on PC
| hard-drives, behind corporate fire walls, etc., stuff that Google will never
| see. But the same is equally true for ODF documents, right? I have tons of
| ODF documents on my laptop, but none of them are indexed by Google.
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http://pascaletmokatherine.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/so-where-are-all-the-ooxml-documents/
Related:
The world does not need a "conversion nightmare": a standard office file format
already exists
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| Microsoft proposed a bogus Office file format while an ISO standard already
| existed. Their shady practices to get their format fast-tracked and approved
| by ISO didn’t work. But Microsoft is still trying—and I can guarantee, it
| will keep on trying until it succeeds.
|
| The only possible answer for Microsoft and OOXML is simple: the world already
| has an office file format. The world doesn’t need nor want a “conversion
| nightmare”. The world’s ISO-approved Office format already exists: it’s
| called ODF. Microsoft: deal with it!
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/editorial_22
Bam! Comical Creese debunks OpenDocumentFormat Alliance
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| You are free to inspect the irregularities website that documents few cases
| reported by the online press and blogs. We got much more reports on an
| informal base per email. The Swedish single employee story is not credible,
| actually committee stuffing took place in Sweden.
|
| On loopholes, that’s another subjective call, but since Microsoft
| competitors managed to establish control over a standards initiative with
| potentially dire consequences for one of Microsoft’s most important
| business domains, we are not surprised that Microsoft (legitimately,
| albeit with what some consider to be poor standards etiquette) exploited
| the loopholes. As we noted, we assume ISO will update its procedures to
| eliminate the loopholes in the future.
|
| What?
|
| Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a standards
| initiative…
|
| What?
|
| Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a standards
| initiative with potentially dire consequences for one of Microsoft’s most
| important business domains, we are not surprised that Microsoft …
| exploited the loopholes.
|
| ???
|
| but since Microsoft competitors managed to establish control over a
| standards initiative with potentially dire consequences for one of
| Microsoft’s most important business domains, we are not surprised that
| Microsoft (legitimately, albeit with what some consider to be poor
| standards etiquette) exploited the loopholes.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-41447/bam-comical-creese-debunks-opendocumentformat-alliance
Microsoft’s secretive standards orgs in Former Yugoslavia
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| Croatian laws keep its national body’s votes secret, so the only way for the
| Croatian public to find out how the process went would be if a board member
| illegally leaked information out of CSI. This is, of course, unlikely to
| happen. And the Serbian national standardization body is not officially
| formed, so those two votes were easy for Microsoft, and probably not only
| ones around the globe.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/092407-ooxml.html?page=1
Microsoft Tech Ed 2007: OpenXML
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| He was asked "Why did Microsoft push OOXML through the "Fast Track" process
| instead of the standard ISO process? Wouldn't they get less resistance than
| faced now?"
|
| His response was very frank: "Office is a USD$10 billion revenue generator
| for the company. When ODF was made an ISO standard, Microsoft had to react
| quickly as certain governments have procurement policies which prefer ISO
| standards. Ecma and OASIS are 'international standards', but ISO is the
| international 'Gold Standard'. Microsoft therefore had to rush this standard
| through. Its a simple matter of commercial interests!"
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/microsoft-tech-.html
Evidence of Microsoft Influencing OOXML Votes in Nordic States
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| "This is how a standard is bought," Bosson wrote later. "I left the meeting
| in protest - pissed off."
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Evidence_of_Microsoft_Influencing_OOXML_Votes_in_Nordic_States/1188335569
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