OOXML
Colin Jackson blogs on the OOXML debate, as he is off to Geneva as one of three people representing NZ at a meeting of the International Standards Organisation. The standards issue has become a bit of a proxy for the wider Microsoft vs open source debate.
Incidentially at the network operations meeting in Dunedin last week, myself and Keith from InternetNZ presented on current policy issues, including OOXML. I quipped that I thought OOXML was my t-shirt size!
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January 29th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Overly Oversized Extra Medium Large?
January 29th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
This is a really big deal. I’m surprised you’re not pushing a position.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Several dozen deficiencies of OOXML are mentioned here
http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections
January 30th, 2008 at 7:42 am
I’ve never looked at the detail of the OOXML standards debate, but most of the commentary around it smells of Open Source: good, Microsoft: bad. This really has appeared to be an opportunity taken by people who hate Microsoft to put the boot in. Which is not to say that there aren’t legitimate objections to and deficiencies in the current OOXML proposal, but I hope that the debate manages to push aside the anti-Microsoft brigade and focus only on the technical issues.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Whenever one of my clients “upgrade” their MS operating system I shudder. I never know what it’s going to break and as I am supporting accounting software that’s usually critical. Non-proprietary data formats are much to be preferred for maintainability or service.