LAST YEAR we warned that Microsoft would attempt to repeat something like the OOXML fiasco, this time for a static document format. This was also alluded to in [1, 2, 3].

“It is Microsoft's proprietary, inferior duplicate of PDF -- just another proprietary format in Microsoft's control.”Now that ECMA, a body that stamps virtually anything provided sufficient payments, is done with XPS (press release from this week), it is expected that Microsoft will try to ram it down ISO's throat. It is Microsoft's proprietary, inferior duplicate of PDF -- just another proprietary format in Microsoft's control. As David Gerard puts it, "Microsoft tries to push completely superfluous garbage through ECMA in preparation for ISO."

Over at Wikipedia, the Microsoft proponents are pushing opinions of Microsoft as facts (see edit: "opinion was stated as fact") and there are more corrections that annul the latest deeds of Ghettoblaster et al. It is worth keeping an eye on Microsoft's intervention in Wikipedia because of whisper campaigns. ⬆

From the Campaign for Document Freedom