NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

I ask the national members of ISO to vote "NO" in the ballot of ISO DIS 29500 (Office OpenXML or OOXML format) for the following reasons:

  1. There is already a standard ISO26300 named Open Document Format (ODF): a dual standard adds costs, uncertainty and confusion to industry, government and citizens;
  2. There is no provable implementation of the OOXML specification: Microsoft Office 2007 produces a special version of OOXML, not a file format which complies with the OOXML specification;
  3. There is information missing from the specification document, for example how to do a autoSpaceLikeWord95 or useWord97LineBreakRules;
  4. More than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard do not validate as XML;
  5. There is no guarantee that anybody can write software that fully or partially implements the OOXML specification without being liable to patent lawsuits or patent license fees by Microsoft;
  6. This format conflicts with existing ISO standards, such as ISO 8601 (Representation of dates and times), ISO 639 (Codes for the Representation of Names and Languages) or ISO/IEC 10118-3 (cryptographic hash);
  7. There is a bug in the spreadsheet file format which forbids any date before the year 1900: such bugs affect the OOXML specification as well as software applications like Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003 and 2007.
  8. This standard proposal was not created by bringing together the experience and expertise of all interested parties (such as the producers, sellers, buyers, users and regulators), but by Microsoft alone.
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  • Jonas Rebmann, Germany, 1258901530|%O ago
  • flashwebtasarimi com, Turkey, 1258879830|%O ago
  • Abuzer Demirtas, Turkey, 1258838481|%O ago
    Comments: Ms tekeline son artık HAYIR...
  • kürşat yılmaz, Turkey, 1258748856|%O ago
  • Vadim Sentyaev, Russian Federation, 1258698625|%O ago
    Comments: I approve it
  • ramazan akın, Turkey, 1258654403|%O ago
  • Hakan Çetin, Turkey, 1258624175|%O ago
  • Kadir Aydemir, Turkey, 1258592517|%O ago
    Comments: Hayır olmamalı. MS tekeline son!
  • Serdar Şeker, Turkey, 1258567556|%O ago
  • Martin Čarnogurský, Slovakia, 1258559082|%O ago
  • ÖZGÜR TÜTÜN, Turkey, 1258454763|%O ago
    Comments: no windows iso standart
  • ibrahim kocabaş, Turkey, 1258394190|%O ago
  • Andrew Smart, United States, 1258322853|%O ago
    Comments: How did this standard pass in the first place? Please fix this ISO.
  • Kaan Erdemir, Turkey, 1258232466|%O ago
  • Marek Karpinski, Poland, 1258209226|%O ago
    Comments: zal
  • Francesco Di Crescenzo, Italy, 1258200960|%O ago
    Comments: I agree this petition
  • Maxim Kryachko, Ukraine, 1258194809|%O ago
    Comments: This format is excessive, as ODF exists. What is the reason I should pay for OOXML?
  • George Voronin, Russian Federation, 1258135024|%O ago
  • Burçin Dağıstan, Turkey, 1258113279|%O ago
    Comments: hayır
  • bulent cakar, Turkey, 1258108666|%O ago
    Comments: no to iso
  • HAYDAR ADEMOGLU, Turkey, 1258100999|%O ago
    Comments: hiçbir sektörde tekel istemiyoruz...
  • Sjoerd Broekhuijsen, Netherlands, 1258069002|%O ago
    Comments: We already have a great standard, it's free (as in freedom) which makes it the moral choice.
    And the Microsoft format doesn't give any advantages..
    Actually, it's only worse than the current standard.

    SAY YES TO OPEN STANDARDS!
  • Hasan Mücahit BULUT, Turkey, 1258068393|%O ago
    Comments: bıktık bu microsofttan!
  • mustafa ozgur, Turkey, 1258066007|%O ago
    Comments: microsoft is like micro; MS programmers approx. 10.000. OpenSource programmers: approx. 10Million. Make your choice, what is the best?
  • Ricardo Carrasco, Spain, 1258063121|%O ago

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