I'm shocked. I can't believe ISO bowed down to Microsoft, and now we all shall be at the mercy of Microsoft's monopolistic stranglehold. It really leaves me in despair, seeing how Microsoft is controlling everything, we already had ODF why did the ISO even consider OOXML let alone approve it?! I'm sure the answer involved a huge sum of money!
Now this bring me to the important questions:
Will Microsoft allow other office suites to freely implement OOXML? or will there be patent and royalty issues?
Is the OOXML standard described as implemented by Microsoft? Can anyone come and implement it, and have an office suite that can read and write to OOXML files?
I'm not comfortable with this at all, Microsoft did it before with C# and .Net, they sued Mono for implementing technologies necessary for running C# applications written in Visual Studio.
You've Changed My Life
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