Alex Brown: "The entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure"

Those who followed the ODF-OOXML Standards War will remember that Alex Brown, the Convener of the Geneva Ballot Resolution Meeting that approved OOXML, helped broker the final approval of OOXML as a formal, global standard. He's defended his actions and OOXML ever since - until now.

Brown now writes that Microsoft has failed to keep promises upon which National Bodies based their votes, and will never implement the very standard it promoted for adoption - just as many predicted and feared.

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