Microsoft's draft Open XML straitjacket arrives

Posted by dcparris on May 19, 2006 8:40 PM EDT
DesktopLinux.com; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Opinion: The Intermediate Draft 1.3 of Microsoft's Open XML office document standard has been released by Ecma International, a European standards organization. At 4,000 plus pages, a 6.7MB Microsoft Word document, the Open XML draft standard is less of a standard and more of a painfully detailed description of how Open XML could be used to display almost any possible Microsoft Office document. Note, I say, Microsoft Office document.

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