LXer: Microsoft OOXML spec 'dangerously flawed'

LXer · 07-12-2007, 01:31 PM

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Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format specification is fatally flawed where it comes to spreadsheets, with many functions filled with careless errors, according to Rob Weir, a systems architect for IBM and a member of various ODF technical committees. Weir documented seven specific problems in a blog post, and said there are others.

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b0uncer · 07-12-2007, 01:58 PM

Wow, what a surprise.

Really no big news after I got yesterday "An unknown error occured while trying to read an unnamed file" when trying to install a 110% legal, paid, new, scratchless MS Office from a bright brand new CD on a just-installed brand new Windows XP SP2. Goddamn, why can't they do one thing right?