{"id":175,"date":"2007-08-31T00:18:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T23:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexandra.st\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-08-31T00:18:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T23:18:17","slug":"microsoft-and-its-methods-to-push-their-own-formats-as-a-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft and its methods to push their own formats as a standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help saying &#8220;see for yourself how they really are&#8221; when I am reading about the latest scandal in the Swedish Standardization Organisation (SIS) regarding standards for document formats. Open Document (ODF) used by the open source package Open Office\/Star Office\/NeoOffice has already been selected as a standards by ISO. However, as usual Microsoft has no intention of supporting this and is instead pushing its own XML-based format called OOXML. This standard is up for a vote in the ISO in a few days and Sweden&#8217;s SIS had recently a vote to decide how Sweden will vote. Microsoft used promises of marketing assistance to urge their partners to become members of SIS and thus being able to vote. As a result the majority shifted and OOXML was accepted as a standard. Computer Sweden have written about it <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/computersweden.idg.se\/2.2683\/1.118623\">here<\/a>. Fortunately the SIS have now declared the vote not guilty based on formal reasons which Dagens Nyheter writes about <a title=\"DN om OOXML\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dn.se\/DNet\/jsp\/polopoly.jsp?d=678&#038;a=686933\">here<\/a>. Why is it so hard for Microsoft to participate in international standardization efforts instead of insisting of doing it alone all the time? Don&#8217;t they realize that all giants sooner or later will lose its grips on the market just like IBM did 20 years ago&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>IBM has now become a good example how to embrace standards and still make money. An even better example is Sun Microsystems that is showing great profits after lots of open source initatives. Even Apple, a company that lots of people used to think of as a very proprietary company nowadays not only implements every standard it finds but base their whole operating system on open source code in the form of FreeBSD\/Darwin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help saying &#8220;see for yourself how they really are&#8221; when I am reading about the latest scandal in the Swedish Standardization Organisation (SIS) regarding standards for document formats. Open Document (ODF) used by the open source package Open Office\/Star Office\/NeoOffice has already been selected as a standards by ISO. However, as usual Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contentperspective.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}