You might want to see my recent blog about OOXML on GullFOSS, too: OOXML Import In Writer: A Shape Is a Shape, Is a Shape?

clipped from news.zdnet.com Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test Word documents generated by today’s version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization, according to tests run by a document standards specialist.

]]> http://henning-brinkmann.dyndns.org/wordpress/2008/04/23/microsoft-does-not-obey-its-own-standards/feed/ 0 http://henning-brinkmann.dyndns.org/wordpress/2008/04/16/tim-bray-about-ooxml-isoiec-29500-versus-ecma-376/ http://henning-brinkmann.dyndns.org/wordpress/2008/04/16/tim-bray-about-ooxml-isoiec-29500-versus-ecma-376/#comments Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:13:46 +0000 hbr http://henning-brinkmann.dyndns.org/wordpress/?p=40 My colleague at Sun Tim Bray has written a quite interesting blog about the new standard ISO/IEC 29500 and compares it to the standard ECMA-376. The latter is implemented by Word 2007. Tim points out the question which standard a developer should implement. His answer is clear: If you want your implementation to be accepted by the public, follow the standard follow by the broadest implementation base. That will be ECMA-376.

Please find his post here.