Comments on: Microsoft: OOXML has won approval as an ISO/IEC standard http://www.itwriting.com/blog/563-microsoft-ooxml-has-won-approval-as-an-isoiec-standard.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Clyde Davies http://www.itwriting.com/blog/563-microsoft-ooxml-has-won-approval-as-an-isoiec-standard.html/comment-page-1#comment-86214 Clyde Davies Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:01:57 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=563#comment-86214 When I saw the date of this blog entry, I had to check it twice just in case ISO had also decided to ratify the flight path of penguins as well. But I agree, it's a good thing, if only because the ostensible main objection hitherto to the blindingly obvious choice of XML document format in commercial environments has been that it's not an 'official' standard. This argument is now to all intents and purposes a red herring. When I saw the date of this blog entry, I had to check it twice just in case ISO had also decided to ratify the flight path of penguins as well.

But I agree, it’s a good thing, if only because the ostensible main objection hitherto to the blindingly obvious choice of XML document format in commercial environments has been that it’s not an ‘official’ standard. This argument is now to all intents and purposes a red herring.

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