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Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote

Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote

Postby Grav!ty » Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:22 pm

Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote

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Brazil, India and South Africa have filed appeals to the ISO/IEC approval of Microsoft
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Postby Grav!ty » Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:26 pm

So how do you approve of a thing when you haven't even seen how what's proposed, ties in with the requirements? Or am I missing something?

Guess this objection taken with South Africas' stance on Myanmar makes us an official rogue state now :lol:
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Postby imnuts » Tue Jun 03, 2008 4:18 am

I just wonder how it passed ISO certification so easily, yet all of a sudden, all of these countries have a problem with the standard.
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Postby Grav!ty » Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:08 am

Venezuela has no also lodged it's objection and Denmark is expected to follow.
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Postby imnuts » Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:22 pm

I don't get why people don't like MS's new document format. It couldn't be any simpler. It's a zipped XML document. If you lose the program that created it, you can just unzip it and open it in a text editor and now you have your data back. Granted, it won't be in a nice format or anything, but it's a fairly simple concept and it would be really easy to recover data in cases of system failure. The only thing that could really make it any better is if they used a better compression algorithm like lzma.
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