What might come of the OOXML revolt?
It’s late, and in terms of the process it’s hopeless, but the appeals of the ISO vote making Office Open XML (OOXML) an official standard could still have an impact
Andy Updegrove has been giving great coverage of all this at his Standards Blog, and writes that Brazil appears to be the leader of the movement, having filed multiple times.
The appeals come nearly a month after England’s standards body was taken to court over its support of OOXML, and a week after the European Union launched its own investigation of the matter.
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OOXML will become the new .doc
OOXML will become the new .doc and I don't mean that in a good way. It'll be a proprietary format that happens to be used by many, but everyone will know that it's just some Microsoft Office-spewed mishmash that some other application /might/ be able to parse to a greater or lesser extent.
If people want standards, there's ODF. Even Microsoft says it'll use it in 2009. Says. Might. Hopefully.