{"id":253,"date":"2005-11-22T04:40:04","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T12:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=34"},"modified":"2005-11-22T04:40:04","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T12:40:04","slug":"microsoft-opening-office-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft opening Office formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news today is that <a href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.com\/news\/2005\/story\/0,11280,106437,00.html\">Microsoft is releasing Office formats as a standard<\/a>. The headline doesn't necessarily match the reality however.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft are planning on releasing the standard for Office 12 documents, which will be based on XML technology, as a standard approved by the ISO. But are the ISO really a better alternative for releasing this information, than simply publishing the information themselves, online, for everybody to look at?<\/p>\n<p>Why does a document standard need ISO approval?<\/p>\n<p>Because doing so would make it much more likely to appeal to governments are large corporations which like to use standards to ensure interoperability.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1345\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1345\" dc:title=\"Microsoft opening Office formats\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1345\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=34\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news today is that <a href=\"http:\/\/computerworld.com\/news\/2005\/story\/0,11280,106437,00.html\">Microsoft is releasing Office formats as a standard<\/a>. The headline doesn&#8217;t necessarily match the reality however.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft are planning on releasing the standard for Office 12 documents, which will be based on XML technology, as a standard approved by the ISO. But are the ISO really a better alternative for releasing this information, than simply publishing the information themselves, online, for everybody to look at?<\/p>\n<p>Why does a document standard need ISO approval?<\/p>\n<p>Because doing so would make it much more likely to appeal to governments are large corporations which like to use standards to ensure interoperability.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1345\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1345\" dc:title=\"Microsoft opening Office formats\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1345\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=34\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}