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OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Posted Apr 2, 2008 14:00 UTC (Wed) by jnsc (subscriber, #35668)
Parent article: OOXML approved as an ISO standard

You are one day late for an april fool's day joke.

:-(

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OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Posted Apr 2, 2008 15:39 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Well, so much for the ISO!  I hope someone writes a book on how Microsoft subverted the ISO's
standards process.  I think it would be fascinating.  Clearly MS learned from their initial
gaffes and are now quite adept at it.

Oh well!  This doesn't really affect my life.  I don't think I've used a word processor since
2003.  :)

OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Posted Apr 2, 2008 18:29 UTC (Wed) by dark (✭ supporter ✭, #8483) [Link]

Indeed. So much for ISO. ISO has approved a standard that it hasn't even read. The text of the revised draft (which, among many other changes, has been split into eight parts and has 1500 new pages) was not available at the time of voting. I don't see how a standard organization's credibility can ever recover from that.

It's not all bad. We'll just have to go back to arguing for standards on their merits, instead of their stamps of approval :)

OOXML approved as an ISO standard

Posted Apr 2, 2008 19:48 UTC (Wed) by ernest (subscriber, #2355) [Link]

People don't care. Beside, most people will never even hear about the real story.

Question: How many people here ever heard about how ISO made a new standard before OOXML was
proposed ? 

Did anybody here care before OOXML came along ? I didn't.

That is the current situation for 99.9% of the world.

The only reputation ISO needs is in the name.

Ernest.