● 12.14.07

●● OOXML: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Posted in Formats, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument, Standard at 7:53 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

A reader has just sent us a pointer to the following good blog post.

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If Microsoft really cared about people’s concern with regard to the preservation of their existing files, they would have done just that: open their binary format. That’s the format that is being used, the format in which existing files are in. Opening that format would mean to fully document it and to remove any legal barrier to fully implement it.

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You are strongly encouraged to remember that OOXML makes our information containers obsolete and thus inaccessible in the future (assorted references accumulated in [1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Any government should be able to see this and adjust its assessment criteria of formats accordingly.

OOXML is legacy, ODF is the future. █

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