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Story: Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOXML

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What a load of manure!!

Seriously, does anyone believe that Microsoft 'didnt know'?

As far as excuses, this ranks right up there with 'my dog ate my homework'.
Im not going to into why since Andy Updegrove does such a good job: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080626092009868
And the update at then end is the cherry on the sundae from the horse's mouth (i always wanted to mix metaphors like that)

But I do want to thank the author for a good laugh,.. the article was passed around at our regular friday meetings and got bigger laughs than Mike Myers did this week. Those in our IT dept who have been members of standards organizations over the past 2 decades alongside with Microsoft employees really found it funny.

This was a fluff piece. When you repeat word for word without asking any questions as if it was a press release, you're a fluffer.

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