[LINK] Microsoft Fails the Standards Test - Office 2010

[Scott Howard]

MS's response -
http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2010/04/06/office-s-support-for-iso-iec-29500-strict.aspx

"In closing, here’s where we stand:

    * In Office 2010, we’re providing read/write for Transitional and
read-only support for Strict.
    * We will include write support for Strict no later than the initial
release of Office 15. (More details will be forthcoming after we complete
our planning.)
    * We are committed to continuing to work closely with the community on
validation techniques, and we are actively using the available ISO/IEC 29500
validators to improve the quality of our implementation."


  Scott


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Andy Farkas <chuzzwassa at gmail.com> wrote:

> "In its pre-release form Office™ 2010 supports not the approved
> Strict variant of OOXML, but the very format the global community
> rejected in September 2007, and subsequently marked as not for
> use in new documents – the Transitional variant."
>
> <http://www.adjb.net/post/Microsoft-Fails-the-Standards-Test.aspx>
>
> -andyf
>
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