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Story: Cruel truth surfaces in the OOXML war

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@nicos

What is OXML? How come I have never heard of it?

I would urge you, as a Microsoft employee, to read: [http://www.odfalliance.org/resources/Disposition%20of%20Comments.pdf]
part C page 10]

The current name is "Office Open XML" or OOXML for short - could you at least get the name of your own standard correct?

It is called erroneously by you and Microsoft "Open XML"? (as opposed to the not-open-xml?). Microsoft(1) also call it "Open Office XML"? as opposed the XML produced by Open Office, more commonly known as "ODF"?

In the ECMA Comments (2) it was suggested by ECMA (ie Microsoft) that "Change the name of Office Open XML to a name which is not easily confused with OpenOffice.".

It would be nice for a start if you could stop causing unnecessary confusion, and uncertainty, with everybody by getting the current name of it right.

kind regards,
Joel

1) http://www.microsoft.com/uk/nhs/content/articles/document-formats-and-the-value-of-choice-in-healthcare.aspx
2) http://www.dis29500.org/ca-0003/

ps.
Could you also change your links to point to appropriate URLs. Each of your urls contains "openxml". It would be much more sensible to use "openofficexml" or "ooxml" instead.

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