Mastodawn

LibreOffice has: A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/ #LibreOffice #MicroSlop #OOXML

A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty - TDF Community Blog

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is reasonable: an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support. Standards exist precisely so that nobody is locked to a single supplier. OOXML — ISO/IEC 29500, the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way. The standard is split into two conformance classes. Strict is the clean version: a modern document format, free of legacy baggage, that an independent implementer could reasonably support. Transitional is everything else: a vast catalogue of compatibility features, deprecated elements, platform-specific behaviours, and references to undocumented quirks of Microsoft Office versions from the 1990s. The Transitional class exists to ensure that documents converted from the old binary doc, xls and ppt formats can be represented in XML without loss. There is one detail that matters above all others: Microsoft Office has never produced Strict OOXML by default. The option to save in Strict format is available in the installed desktop applications but is absent from the browser-based versions of Microsoft 365 — and Microsoft’s various editions have long differed in which features they

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LibreOffice 3d ago

A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is that an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.

OOXML — the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/

#odf #ooxml

Italo Vignoli 3d ago

A Standard in Name Only: What OOXML Transitional Tells Us About Format Sovereignty

When a public administration is told its documents are stored in “an ISO standard format,” the assumption is that an ISO standard ought to be a clean, implementable specification that any qualified software vendor can support.

OOXML — the format behind Microsoft’s docx, xlsx and pptx files — does not work this way.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/02/a-standard-in-name-only/

#odf #ooxml

Italo Vignoli 4d ago

Microsoft Knew It

A 2004 document which provides some interesting background to the OOXML story.

https://open.substack.com/pub/italovignoli/p/microsoft-knew-it?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1va4e

#odf #ooxml #lock-in

Microsoft Knew It

A 2004 white paper, to be read in light of the OOXML campaign

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Björn Schießle

May 25

Excel has a thing for getting dates wrong (the (in)famous 1900 leap-year bug, inherited from Lotus 1-2-3 and never fixed), and when Excel gets dates wrong, no other software does it worse. [..] The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee was forced in 2020 to rename dozens of human genes – including SEPT1 and MARCH1 – because Excel kept silently converting their symbols to dates. Rather than going to Microsoft and demanding a bug fix, scientists preferred to throw years of established nomenclature down the drain to avoid upsetting Redmond

I really like these two examples, not because of the issues as such, but as two examples of how people usually handle bugs in proprietary software: ignore them or work around them, but almost never complain about the software.

MS Office is always mentioned as the standard, and everything has to be as good as MS Office if people consider different solutions. But in the end, it's not because MS is so much better. People are just used to it and how to work around strange issues that they would never accept in a Free Software solution.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/15/no-digital-sovereignty-without-odf/

#OpenStandards #ODF #OOXML #Microsoft #Office #FreeSoftware

There is no digital sovereignty without ODF - TDF Community Blog

Any other choice is a choice of dependence on a single vendor Digital sovereignty begins with the document format. Everything else – server location, hosting jurisdiction, procurement clauses – is downstream of this single decision. If the format is standard and open, the user controls the document. If the format is proprietary the vendor controls it, even when the file sits on the user’s own hard drive. This is why LibreOffice, and its derivatives such as Collabora Office and Online, are today the only legitimate choice for governments, supranational bodies, businesses and organisations that want to protect the digital freedom of their users. Only software based on the LibreOffice source code – the LibreOffice Technology – uses ODF as its native document format. Every document saved, stored, retained and exchanged in ODF remains the exclusive property of its author, and remains so over the years. ODF – Open Document Format, as the name says – was designed and developed in accordance with the characteristics of a true open standard: clearly documented, transparently developed by an independent body, properly versioned, built on existing standards, and stored in XML files that any user can read. None of this applies to OOXML. The

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Laurent Espitallier May 22

LibreOffice accuse Microsoft d'avoir fait disparaître son seul format Word conforme à la norme ISO https://www.clubic.com/actualite-613642-libreoffice-accuse-microsoft-d-avoir-fait-disparaitre-son-seul-format-word-conforme-a-la-norme-iso.html #formatsouverts #libreoffice #microsoftoffice #word #opendocument #openxml #ooxml #iso #standardsouverts

LibreOffice accuse Microsoft d'avoir fait disparaître son seul format Word conforme à la norme ISO

En 2008, Microsoft promettait à l'ISO que la version standardisée d'OOXML remplacerait la version provisoire. Dix-huit ans plus tard, c'est la version provisoire qui a gagné, et la version standardisée qui a disparu.

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brume ⏚ 🤔 ⛵ 🐧 ☮️ 🇵🇸 🍉May 22

LibreOffice accuse Microsoft d'avoir fait disparaître son seul format #Word conforme à la norme #ISO
https://www.clubic.com/actualite-613642-libreoffice-accuse-microsoft-d-avoir-fait-disparaitre-son-seul-format-word-conforme-a-la-norme-iso.html

Une fois de plus, #Microsoft ment & triche

MSOffice supprime la sauvegarde au format OOXML Strict pour ne garder que le format Transitional, portant 1 coup fatal à la souveraineté numérique des utilisateurs de sa suite

"L'Allemagne a imposé #ODF comme format obligatoire dans tte son administrat°, excluant explicitement #OOXML Transitional. En France, #LibreOffice est référencé au SILL et déployé dans 9 ministères. Mais les administrat°s FR restent très largement sur #MSOffice, sans décis° politique comparable à celle de Berlin"

LibreOffice accuse Microsoft d'avoir fait disparaître son seul format Word conforme à la norme ISO

En 2008, Microsoft promettait à l'ISO que la version standardisée d'OOXML remplacerait la version provisoire. Dix-huit ans plus tard, c'est la version provisoire qui a gagné, et la version standardisée qui a disparu.

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KillBait May 21

The Document Foundation defiende ODF frente a OOXML para garantizar la soberanía digital

📰 Título original: TDF (LibreOffice) carga contra Microsoft por OOXML

🤖 IA: No es clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: No es clickbait ✅

Ver resumen IA completo: https://es.killbait.com/the-document-foundation-defiende-odf-frente-a-ooxml-para-garantizar-la-soberania-digital.html?utm_source=masto_es&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.masto_es

#tecnología #libreoffice #odf #ooxml

The Document Foundation defiende ODF frente a OOXML para garantizar la soberanía digital

The Document Foundation (TDF), responsable de LibreOffice, ha vuelto a manifestar su oposición al uso del formato OOXML de Microsoft, argumentando que su complejidad, dependencia de formatos propietarios y falta de transparencia lo convierten en una amenaza para la soberanía digital de usuarios y organizaciones. La fundación subraya que ODF, por ser un estándar abierto, permite a los usuarios controlar sus documentos, mientras que OOXML deja el control en manos de Microsoft. La crítica de TDF abarca tanto aspectos técnicos —como la ausencia de control de versiones, incompatibilidades con calendarios y el uso de formatos obsoletos— como éticos, señalando que la adopción de OOXML por la ISO y diversos gobiernos reforzó un monopolio y puso datos privados en manos de un proveedor único. La fundación defiende que ODF debería ser el formato nativo, relegando OOXML únicamente para intercambio con usuarios de Microsoft Office. Esta discusión cobra relevancia en un contexto de creciente interés por la soberanía tecnológica y la independencia de datos, con ODF celebrando su vigésimo aniversario y consolidándose progresivamente en organismos internacionales y administraciones públicas, aunque la inercia de Microsoft Office sigue dificultando su adopción masiva.

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KillBait Noticias May 21

The Document Foundation defiende ODF frente a OOXML para garantizar la soberanía digital

📰 Título original: TDF (LibreOffice) carga contra Microsoft por OOXML

🤖 IA: No es clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: No es clickbait ✅

Ver resumen IA completo: https://es.killbait.com/the-document-foundation-defiende-odf-frente-a-ooxml-para-garantizar-la-soberania-digital.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait_es.mastodon_social

#tecnología #libreoffice #odf #ooxml

The Document Foundation defiende ODF frente a OOXML para garantizar la soberanía digital

The Document Foundation (TDF), responsable de LibreOffice, ha vuelto a manifestar su oposición al uso del formato OOXML de Microsoft, argumentando que su complejidad, dependencia de formatos propietarios y falta de transparencia lo convierten en una amenaza para la soberanía digital de usuarios y organizaciones. La fundación subraya que ODF, por ser un estándar abierto, permite a los usuarios controlar sus documentos, mientras que OOXML deja el control en manos de Microsoft. La crítica de TDF abarca tanto aspectos técnicos —como la ausencia de control de versiones, incompatibilidades con calendarios y el uso de formatos obsoletos— como éticos, señalando que la adopción de OOXML por la ISO y diversos gobiernos reforzó un monopolio y puso datos privados en manos de un proveedor único. La fundación defiende que ODF debería ser el formato nativo, relegando OOXML únicamente para intercambio con usuarios de Microsoft Office. Esta discusión cobra relevancia en un contexto de creciente interés por la soberanía tecnológica y la independencia de datos, con ODF celebrando su vigésimo aniversario y consolidándose progresivamente en organismos internacionales y administraciones públicas, aunque la inercia de Microsoft Office sigue dificultando su adopción masiva.

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Hal9000

May 21

#LibreOffice attacca #Microsoft: Il #formato #OOXML è assurdo

#uno #closed

TDF definisce OOXML così assurdo nella complessità da non riuscire nemmeno a gestire il #calendario #gregoriano. #Excel identifica erroneamente il #1900 come anno bisestile.

Ahahah #buffoni

https://www.punto-informatico.it/libreoffice-attacca-microsoft-formato-ooxml-assurdo/

LibreOffice attacca Microsoft: Il formato OOXML è assurdo

The Document Foundation, l'azienda dietro LibreOffice, denuncia OOXML come formato proprietario mascherato da standard aperto.

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