{"id":196482,"date":"2008-04-23T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/23\/the-microsoft-office-standards-clown-show\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T04:03:00","slug":"the-microsoft-office-standards-clown-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/23\/the-microsoft-office-standards-clown-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Microsoft Office &#8220;Standards&#8221; Clown Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Office documents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/04\/22\/office_2007_oxml_fails_test\/\">do not comply with the ISO&#8217;s newly adopted OXML<sup>*<\/sup> Standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Microflaccid&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Embrace_and_extend\">Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish<\/a>&#8221; also covers standards developed by Microsoft for the benefit of their marketing department.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of their DNA.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">When it became an &#8220;ISO standard&#8221; the 2nd &#8220;O&#8221;, for &#8220;Office&#8221;, was dropped.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Office documents do not comply with the ISO&#8217;s newly adopted OXML* Standard. It appears that Microflaccid&#8217;s &#8220;Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish&#8221; also covers standards developed by Microsoft for the benefit of their marketing department. It&#8217;s part of their DNA. *When it became an &#8220;ISO standard&#8221; the 2nd &#8220;O&#8221;, for &#8220;Office&#8221;, was dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schadenfreude","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}