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Microsoft, OOXML and the ISO

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
Linux Journal; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
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Microsoft plays to win. As a result, it seems to regard any legal means as justified, and sometimes even strays outside the law, as the US anti-trust case demonstrated. In the context of marketplace rough-and-tumble, such aggressiveness is perhaps acceptable, but in other realms, there may be serious collateral damage. A good example of where that is the case is Microsoft's behaviour during the OOXML standardisation process at the ISO.

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Comments (3)

golem ·
Why isn't it generating more conversation?
caitlyn ·
Probably because Microsoft doesn't want it to.
Sander_Marechal ·
Or because it's already been discussed to death back when OOXML wasn't yet approved. Glyn Moody made a nice wrap-up, but (for me) there's nothing new in it.

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