Comments on: Quick Mention: Microsoft Gives the Finger to Mac Users in ‘Need’ of OOXML http://techrights.org/2008/02/22/openxml-delay-against-apple/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2008/02/22/openxml-delay-against-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-5848 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:16:14 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/22/openxml-delay-against-apple/#comment-5848 For context and completeness, we ought to cite:

OOXML Questions Microsoft Cannot Answer in Geneva
http://www.fanaticattack.com/2008/ooxml-questions-microsoft-cannot-answer-in-geneva.html

Participants in the BRM have already been told not to listen to ‘trolls’ like Vint Cert, says Rob Weir. I’ve noticed to-be attendants of the BRM in Geneva entering discussions that I start in USENET. They deny any wrongdoing, which is fine, but they fail to see how the little secretive party they will join has already been ‘cooked’;

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By: Stephane Rodriguez http://techrights.org/2008/02/22/openxml-delay-against-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-5844 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:14:59 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/02/22/openxml-delay-against-apple/#comment-5844 OOXML is a moving target anyway. It won’t be long before we have 4 variants.

And in fact, the best part is that OOXML is just a gimmic. There is no Save As OOXML in Office 2007 (and all the applications that Microsoft claims to provide rich support for it).

To me the most troubling bit is the silence around Office 2009 beta 1. Microsoft people will be pissing in their pants in Geneva, praying that no national bodies ask them the hard questions about what changes they have already backed in Office 2009 that they are not telling anyone yet.

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