Quoting Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just read tonight an article in the Computerworld where MS are going > to put > > their document formats up for ISO recognition > > No, MS announced they were going to register their Office 12 format > with > the European ECMA organisation > (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/66699). This is not ISO! In > contrast, the OpenOffice format was submitted to ISO in September and > already has a number of applications supporting it (OO 2, StarOffice, > koffice, TextMaker 2005 and abiword), ie is a long shot ahead. > > I also read the state of Masachussetts may be swayed into adopting MS's > nonsense. Let's hope politicians have more foresight than average and > see through this clever Microsoft ploy at distracting from the real
For what it's worth, Piper Cole, one of the Sun honchos, pointed out that Microsot's Office XML 12 format was still vapourware at the moment, while ODF had been shipping for more than one application and was thus well-tested and useable. http://blogs.sun.com/piper "While Microsoft has promised to eventually submit Office 12 to a standards body, the Commonwealth must act on existing open standards to best serve its future needs for document exchange. Just as an agency would not purchase a product before its actual availability, so too would it be a mistake to rely on a single vendors promise to submit a new product to a standards body at some point in the future. The Commonwealth owes no less to its taxpaying citizens." > issue. We all know any amount of proprietary non-documented binary > jumble can be included between two well-documented XML tags > <BillyHasYouByYourShortnCurlies> ... </BillyHasYouByYourShortnCurlies>. If it comes to that, I noticed just yesterday how badly Microsoft misses with its names - well, as we know, they had MS WinCE; which in conjuncion with MS WinME and MS WinNT begot their most solid OS, MS Windows CE-ME-NT ... now, in an effort to rebrand their premier OS, they are releasing MS Windows Vista beta. If you pronounce "beta" with 'e' the same vowel as in "weight", and you say it fast, it sounds rather crude. Health Warning: Don't attempt to think it while drinking coffee! ;) Wesley Parish > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
