Alex Brown: "The entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure" (consortiuminfo.org)

The OOXML project was a great success. The point was to allow MS to claim that there was no propriety lock in and so it was perfectly reasonable for governments to standardize on it's format. The aim was also to ensure that nobody could realistic produce a competitor to office using the format - double win.

Microsoft promoting one of its proprietary file formats as a “standard” when politically expedient, and then ignoring that “standard” after the moment of expedience has passed? Shocked! Shocked, I am!