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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 04:42:20PM +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 14:19, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 01:08:34PM +0000, Paul Sutton wrote: > > > I know that odf is iso 26300 > > > research has revealded that pdf is 32000 > > > > > > I am looking for similar numbers for any of the MS formats, (i know they > > > probably don't exist) > > > > No MS formats have (yet) been standardised by ISO. Ergo, they don't have > > a number. > > > > > Like it or not people seeem to insist that MS is some sort of standard, > > > I would like to put more in my sig (I can add pdf), but if I also add > > > ms office format - iso = unknown > > > > MS Office is at best a de-facto standard, due largely to Microsoft's > > monopoly. > sorry is de-facto latin for 'claims to be but changes so much it shouldn't be > called a'... > If MS standardised ms-office format then others would be able to emulate it > fully and... (see ISO ODF OOXML wars for full script). > MS office will NEVER be a standard. By de-facto I mean "people behave as if it is one, but it isn't, and therefore doesn't have any of the benefits of an actual standard". -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html