I reallly do not understand what the issue is.....

Kjel Anderson kjel.anderson at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 12:07:01 EST 2007


The link to the comments on EOOXML would be hilarious if it weren't so
scary. This is my favorite part so far:

"Where Ecma 376 specifies 50 pages of clip art (pages 2415 to 2465), ISO
26300 allows the insertion of an arbitrary image into the document."

The absurdity is breathtaking!

Kjel

On 3/8/07, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 3/8/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> >
> > ....if Microsoft can overrule Pope Gregory and change the Gregorian
> > calendar (please see the comment on ECMA 376)
> >
> > http://www.grokdoc.net/index.php/EOOXML_objections#The_Gregorian_Calendar
> >
> >
> > I do not understand why they can not just overrule the US Congress and
> > President Bush and resolve this small problem:
> >
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=307&tag=nl.e589
> >
> > It is so much easier for Microsoft to change the course of the US
> > government.  Most of the government are still alive.
> >
> > Probably all Microsoft would have to do is write a small macro for
> > Excel.....
>
>
>
> The solution MS had for Exchange didn't work at 80% of my company's
> sites.  So now we have to tell the users to manually adjust any existing
> appointments from new DST to the old DST data manually in Outlook.
>
> What would happen if any other vendor did that.
>
> "It didn't work?  Well..  good luck.."
>
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