[LINK] Microsoft Office XML Formats? Defective by design

Glen Turner gdt at gdt.id.au
Mon Aug 27 21:25:27 AEST 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 14:00 +0800, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> This make interesting reading.
> Is it my cynicism or is this a train wreck waiting to happen to little o'l MS?

Hi Bernard,

It's not a train wreck for MS -- they have got the only
set of interoperating applications using OOXML.  And
since OOXML is really defined as the "output of Office"
dealing with the problems from the poor design and
worse specification falls upon the non-MS application.

Regards, Glen




More information about the Link mailing list