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Story: Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOXML

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Re: Microsoft admits something shocker

It was strange to see Microsoft at such a pro open source conference and I really questioned what their motivation was as I am not sure they managed to have much effect on most of the audience's attitudes to Redmond. The questions were quite hostile – especially around the embrace, extend and extinguish – but give him some credit the Microsoft spokesperson Stuart McKee remained pretty cool – but then they wouldn't throw anyone into that situation who couldn't handle it.

It was funny because although McKee seemed to want to appear conciliatory over the OOXML process – the comments around XPS and upcoming video "standards" did come across like – "Well you might have beaten us this time – but just you wait".

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