OOXML fails to get fast track with ISO

[Dazed_75]

On 9/4/07, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
>
> ODF remains the only international standard for documents as the
> Microsoft proposal for their OOXML has failed to get acceptance...
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070904082606181
>
> and the Wall Street Journal online coverage...
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118891067511516783.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>
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> Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>
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Given the standards history in the USA on things like Metric Measures and
paper sizes, I still worry M$ will hold out and make OOXML a defacto
standard and ignore ISO


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either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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