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Originally Posted by 13xforever
Even with all the UI issues, Office 2007 brought OpenXML and this tech alone worth a lot (at least the right not to be called "nothing but a crap").
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True, that buys them the right to have the ISO exposed as utterly worthless and ignorable since you can buy standards. Technical merits, given previous, drastically superior open standards? /div0
It's an excuse to have an "open" standard (and thus head off genuinely open document standards), while you cannot even actually read and write the documents by following the "standard" precisely. Oh, and remember that Office 2007 is NOT OpenXML compliant!
(Ecma's status as a branch of Microsoft should also be formalised)