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OOXML: Rumors, innuendos, and outright lies!

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When you tell a lie often enough, it takes on a patina of truth each time it is uttered, and after a while, it starts to sound like the truth.

Rumors of underhanded tactics, skullduggery, and outright bribery have been heaped on Microsoft since the win.

Microsoft has largely remained silent, in my opinion, allowing these rumors to fester.

In the just-concluded, successful standardization process for ISO 29500, aka OOXML, a lot of ink has been spent by the opposition to OOXML in trying to discredit Microsoft and the standardization process.

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Hurray for Ecma TC46

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Ecma international is probably the only progressive standards body out there.

Thanks to them we have Ecma 376, currently submitted to the ISO for certification as a standard, and now, TC46.

TC46, full name TC46- XPS Technical Committee, is a technical committee just formed to develop a standard based on Microsoft's XML Paper Specification.

About time, Microsoft!

I am pleased that Microsoft is pursuing a standards-based certification for this excellent product; excellent even in this first iteration.

As usual, those that cannot, whine! They are miffed that their input was either not solicited, nor required for Ecma 376 (Open Office XML), and might not be for TC46.

I understand.

Dudes, you have been outed as being irrelevant to these processes.

Just go away already.

Sutor, Updegrove, you know who I'm talking about!

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