In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:50:05 +0000
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> ____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 14 March 2008 22:37 : \____
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>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Erik Funkenbusch
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>> wrote
>> on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:24:18 -0400
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>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:00:33 -0700, Jim Richardson wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:49:42 -0400,
>>>> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:41:51 -0700, Jim Richardson wrote:
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>>>>>> That of course brings up the question of *why* did they not submit it?
>>>>>> Only after there was a competing ISO std did they do so.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not exactly. The issue was that because ODF had become an ISO standard,
>>>>> governments began to be interested in having an ISO standard format. So,
>>>>> because a demand for an ISO standard presented itself, Microsoft decided
>>>>> they needed a format that was capable of working with Office in its
>>>>> entirety.
>>>>
>>>> as I said, only after there was a competing standard was MS interested.
>>>
>>> No. Only after their customers began to request a standard document format
>>> did Microsoft become interested.
>>
>> They already had one. Microsoft Word. Why would they need another? ;-)
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> It made a nice forced upgrade ramp. Ask people who get sent .docx.
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Or non-Microsoft people who get sent .doc. Standard?
Definitely, in the de-facto sense. Certainly not standard
in the thorougly documented, discussed to death, and
ultimately approved by anything resembling a governmental
body sense.
But give credit where credit's due; C#'s interface (if
not its implementation) is standardized through ECMA.
Of course this doesn't mean it's the preferential solution
for code development.
And from what I've heard, OOXML isn't exactly the preferential
solution for document development.
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