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Microsoft can’t support Open XML

practical-tech.com — Would you believe that Microsoft has just admitted that it can't support its own document standard, Open XML, anytime soon, but that it will be supporting ODF? Believe it.

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  • alanr19, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Its such a complicated and convoluted standard It doesn't surprise me that they cant support it until Office 14.

    The reason OOXML is so complex is to raise the bar so that relatively small OSS outfits like AbiWord and OpenOffice won't have the resources to use (waste) on the implementation of an overly complex standard. The documentation itself is 12,000 pages long FFS.
  • Bicep, on 05/21/2008, -0/+2Arrrgh... this is just another reason it SHOULD NOT be a standard yet!! How can something that's broken from a standpoint of being supported be a standard? But then again, it's probably "broken" so that no other companies can make software that will properly implement it. What a farce. Same old stuff from Microsoft.
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