Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Microsoft Office open XML standard
pcmag.com reports that Microsoft has submitted the first draft of the Office Open XML file format specification. (The link to the draft, supplied with the article, is broken at the moment.)
It has doubled in size since its submission, and now contains more than 2,000 pages of additional documentation, including more than 160 pages devoted to documenting 356 different spreadsheet formulas alone.
"And this is just the first draft," a Microsoft spokesperson said, adding that the specification represents work from more than five months of technical committee meetings.
2000 pages? This looks as if it will die stillborn of its own weight as an open standard. I hate to imagine how long the review process will take.
# posted by Gary McGath @ 4:36 PM 
