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An Antic Disposition: Asking the right questions about Office 2010's OOXML support on 2009-11-17
- anyone who claims that their product supports "OOXML" in an unqualified sense, without stating which conformance target or conformance classes they are supporting, is not stating anything of substance.
- anyone who claims that their product supports "OOXML" in an unqualified sense, without stating which conformance target or conformance classes they are supporting, is not stating anything of substance.
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- - Remember, the conformance language of OOXML is so loose that even a shell statement of "cat foo.docx > /dev/null" would qualify as a conformant application.
  - But that is not what WG4 was recently told in Seattle, where they were told that Office would not write out Strict documents until Office 16
  - In other words, will Office 2010 be "strictly conformant" with the ISO/IEC 29500:2008 standards?
  - To do otherwise is to essentially specify a require for the use of Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office alone.
What are the decision criteria for DCORs in the JTC1 Directives? (Norbert Bollow's Comments on Standards) on 2009-11-15
- the SC Secretariat has decided that the "generally
  positive" requirement has not been met.
Blogger: An Antic Disposition - Post a Comment on 2009-10-28
- As to supporting standards that are in process, if there is for all practical purposes a reference implementation generally agreed upon I personally don't see a problem with that except perhaps at the practical level of release cycles.
[office] OpenDocument TC coordination call minutes 2009-10-19 on 2009-10-21
- The submission of the committee draft for public review was approved,
  since 11 out of 15 voting members votes with "Yes", which is a full
  majority.
An Antic Disposition on 2009-10-16
- Leadership entails foreseeing and preventing problems, not simply reacting to them.
- If your business model requires only conformance and not actually achieving interoperability, then I wish you well.
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- - If your business model requires only conformance and not actually achieving interoperability, then I wish you well. But remember that conformance and interoperability are not mutually exclusive options. An application can be conformant to a standard and also be interoperable, if you use the legacy formula namespace and syntax. So the desire to be conformant is not an excuse for not also being interoperable, or at least not a valid excuse.
An Antic Disposition: Protocols, Formats and the Limits of Disclosure on 2009-10-13
- it strips out ODF spreadsheet formulas
- it strips out ODF spreadsheet formulas
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- - interoperability is achieved by converging on a common interpretation of the format
An Antic Disposition: The Final OOXML Update: Part I on 2009-10-03
- In any case, my current estimate is for us to send ODF 1.2 out for public review later this year and then to have a vote to approve it as an OASIS Standard in Q1 2010.
- In any case, my current estimate is for us to send ODF 1.2 out for public review later this year and then to have a vote to approve it as an OASIS Standard in Q1 2010
OOXML leap-year bug unfix (Norbert Bollow's Comments on Standards) on 2009-08-13
- I have been shocked to find that they're actually proposing to
  re-introduce the leap-year bug
Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support : News : Software - ZDNet Asia on 2009-07-03
- Symphony 1.3, released last week, now enables imports of documents using Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format. However, the free-of-charge office suite does not yet let users save documents in OOXML.
Is There Life After Office? | BNET Technology Blog | BNET on 2009-07-02
- Kafkaesque joke exemplifying vendor ambition, inexperience and stupidity

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Document Wars

13 members, 464 items

Document Wars covers the portable XML document battle between OpenDocument, Office Open XML, and CDF, the W3C's Compound Document Format. The relationship to the Grand Convergence of desktop, server, device and web systems will be decisive, with application independence and universal interoperabili
OpenDocument

27 members, 430 items

A collection of comments and discussions concerning OpenDocument and the challenge presented by Microsoft's Office Open XML.