{"id":563,"date":"2008-04-01T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-04-01T17:34:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T16:34:31","slug":"microsoft-ooxml-has-won-approval-as-an-isoiec-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/563-microsoft-ooxml-has-won-approval-as-an-isoiec-standard.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: OOXML has won approval as an ISO\/IEC standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/press\/2008\/apr08\/04-01OpenXMLVotePR.mspx\">Microsoft&#8217;s press release<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/images\/ooxml-vote-pdf.zip\">document in unofficial circulation<\/a>, Microsoft&#8217;s Open Office XML, an XML format for Microsoft Office, has been approved as an ISO standard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an ugly process. That said, I suspect the spec has been significantly improved by all the attention it has received. The spat has exposed the money and politics behind standardization processes. This seems to be a theme of late: see also Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD, and even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=556\">Java Community Process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome standardization, but dislike the way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=313\">both<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=334\">sides<\/a> have put their standards wars ahead of the convenience of users.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:3bc2627f-071e-4adf-88bf-6908103214d5\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ooxml\" rel=\"tag\">ooxml<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/odf\" rel=\"tag\">odf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/jcp\" rel=\"tag\">jcp<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Microsoft&#8217;s press release, and a document in unofficial circulation, Microsoft&#8217;s Open Office XML, an XML format for Microsoft Office, has been approved as an ISO standard. It&#8217;s been an ugly process. That said, I suspect the spec has been significantly improved by all the attention it has received. The spat has exposed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/563-microsoft-ooxml-has-won-approval-as-an-isoiec-standard.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft: OOXML has won approval as an ISO\/IEC standard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}