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Curt
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Posted: 2008-Jan-25 00:30
How serious of a problem is Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard? This page indicates it is a big problem that we need to be concerned with. What do you think?
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Jan-25 00:44
Didn't it get voted down recently?
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Curt
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Posted: 2008-Jan-25 00:50
Heck, I don't know. I just spotted the page by accident and thought I'd ask about it. “If” it was voted down, then it would seem that it was not a very good idea.
Can anyone confirm that the proposed Microsoft ISO standard was voted down?
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Quadrille
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Posted: 2008-Jan-25 01:38
I'm not up to speed on all the details, but M$ were hoping to get it signed and sealed in December - and failed:
story at news.com
But it just means that the standard is still up for grabs - open source versus Big Bill (rtd).
It's being billed as a battle between M$ and IBM, but that's a gross oversimplification, as Google, Sun and many others are also involved.
I think the betting is:
Open source 4/6 F
Microsoft 6/4
200/1 bar these.
But the show has some time to run, I think.
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Curt
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Posted: 2008-Jan-27 02:19
Quadrille said:
Open source 4/6 F
Microsoft 6/4
200/1 bar these.
Don't quite understand those ratios. Can you elaborate the shorthand a little 
The standard should perhaps be based on OpenOffice documents instead. That would seem more fair and avoid any potential proprietary patent violations by others. Otherwise M$ might be able to find ways to stifle particular companies for using the standard for their own purposes if they happen to violate accidentally some M$ proprietary portion of the standard. We don't want any one company having too much control like that. When you base a standard on proprietary software, you potentially risk patent infringement issues, not a situation to allow.
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