[odf-discuss] Private deal to approve OOXML? More evidence surfaces

[robert_weir at us.ibm.com]

odf-discuss-bounces at opendocumentfellowship.com wrote on 04/11/2008 
10:19:43 AM:

> 
> > I'm guess #2.  Office 2007 already ignores much of OOXML.  Office 14
> > is close to being released in beta form.  And if MS ignores OOXML,
> > then so will Novell and Sun.  All SC34 has is a handful of dust. 
> 
> 
> Why would OOXML be of benefit to MS if it never gets implemented? Surely
> the EU and governments in general are not so naive as to accept Office
> 14 as supporting an ISO file format if it clearly doesn't? So surely
> they will be under the same pressure to go with odf documents and
> applications that support them. Ok, it might delay things a bit while
> governments hang around to see what the O14 file format is or possibly
> the O15 format but in the end isn't it going to be obvious that the
> emperor has no clothes. Have I missed something here?
> 

If governments can be pressured into accepting OOXML as a proper ISO 
standard, then they can also be pressured into accepting Microsoft Office 
as implementing that same standard.

-Rob
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