Microsoft Open XML efforts good? - British Library. Update
Microsoft Open XML efforts good ? - British Library . For more problems with the OOXML "open" standard: see Slashdot's Microsoft's OOXML Formulas Could Be Dangerous and the original article by Rob Weir, The Formula for Failure . And perhaps of more significance, some real questions from FSF Europe to national standards bodies, perhaps lessons learned (or those which should be learned) from the OOXML standardization fiasco: Six Questions to national standardization bodies: Application Independence? Supporting pre-existing Open Standards? Backward compatibility for all vendors? Proprietary extensions? Dual Standards? Legally safe?