I have been meaning to blog about this for awhile. File this under “Better Late Than Never”.
What’s the best archival format for your important documents? In a previous post I suggested parchment might be—but that’s impractical. All joking aside, the issue is a serious for anyone who is going to spend the better part of […]
Over at An Antic Disposition, Rob Weir compares Micorsoft’s attempt to pass off OOXML as a standard to Diogenes the Cynic’s response to Plato’s definition of man.
Plato, teaching in the Akademia grove, defined Man as “a biped, without feathers.” This was answered by the original smart-ass, Diogenes of Sinope, aka Diogenes the Cynic, […]
There is a petition against OOXML becoming an ISO standard here. Besides the fact that there already is an ISO document standard, ODF, a real standard is easy to implement and naturally has a variety of implementations. But there is no working implementation of OOXML and unlikely to be any produced by anyone other than […]
Nature has announced that it cannot accept OOXML documents:
We currently cannot accept files saved in Microsoft Office 2007 formats. Equations and special characters (for example, Greek letters) cannot be edited and are incompatible with Nature’s own editing and typesetting programs.
And so has Science:
Because of changes Microsoft has made in its recent […]
Microsoft has issued an open letter on interoperability in which they criticize IBM for opposing Open XML as an open standard.
In an Ars Technica article, a Microsoft spokesperson has some harsh words for IBM:
“Microsoft has determined that it is important to shine a bright light on IBM’s activities that will have a negative […]
Rob Weir over at An Antic Disposition has a good discussion of Microsoft’s Office Open XML—its new document format—and the Open Document Format developed by Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards which was based on the XML format originally implemented by OpenOffice.org office suite.
Some of the problems with storing data in proprietary binaries […]
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