(created: March 21, 2008)
OOXML - Just Say No!
(D-day is March 26 - read below)
ODF is the standard for documents
(ISO/IEC 26300:2006).
MicroSoft wants to add its own office
internal formats as a standard (OOXML).
If it is accepted, MS office-internal-format
will be standard compliant
without complying with ODF.
In addition, MS does not open its internal format, resulting in
shutting the door for any competition to MS
Read more:
A statement of the problem
NO OOXML page
Six reasons to migrate to OOXML (a video clip)
Did you know? (a video clip)
What do you want? (a video clip)
An ODF <===> MS Word converter
(Added: March 26, 2008)
More links
(Added: March 21, 2008)
Groklaw
on OOXML
Andrew Updegrove's blog
A blog by Zaheda Bhorat
WRT to the BRM
Tim Bray's blog
Rob Weir's blog
Bob Sutor's blog
International perspective - Malaysia
Antonis' blog