Story: ECMA move is standard fare from Microsoft

Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 22 November 2005, 5:22 PM)

Couldn't agree more. Give it 5 years and they will be claiming it was MS innovation and patenting it as if it was them that first thought of the idea of open XML document formats for office apps. Stealing other people's ideas is fine, but try stealing one of theirs and see what happens.

There is only one standard necessary. MS's standard has no technical advantages over OD is years behiond and not implemented yet in any mainstream software. It is very similar to OD and essentially different for the sake of being different. Its about time the technological dictator was given a very clear message from the customers. Don't buy this attempt at subverting open standards. Don't trust a company that has shown time and time again that it is untrustworthy.