The Document Foundation criticizes the EU Commission for exclusively using Microsoft's XLSX format in the Cyber Resilience Act consultation.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/61544796

The Foundation sees this as a contradiction to the EU’s own interoperability goals. Although XLSX is standardized as OOXML according to ISO/IEC 29500, Microsoft’s implementations often deviate from the specifications. Furthermore, features often change undocumented, which complicates compatibility with open-source software such as LibreOffice.

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dkEnglish
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    3 days ago

    OOXML has always been a complete pile of absolute unmitigated shit that nobody should have been using for anything. I recall back during the ISO standardization process controversy where some unsung hero printed the full spec out as hardcopy, and had to use a trolley to manage the resulting man-high stack of binders. It’s an absurd unjustifiable mess of epic proportions.