Bill Gates on OpenXML at US House of Representatives

"Bill Gates on Open XML at US House of Representatives, Committee on Science & Technology"
March 12, 2008, Bill Gates was at the at US House of Representatives, Committee on Science & Technology, and testified at the Committee's 50th Anniversary Hearing on Competitiveness and Innovation.

From the hearing charter: This year, the Committee on Science and Technology will celebrate its 50 Anniversary.
On Wednesday, March 12, 2008, the House Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing to highlight this occasion and receive testimony from Bill Gates, the Chairman of the Microsoft Corporation, to discuss our country's technological advances over the past 50 years, the current state of our country's competitiveness, and a look ahead to the challenges we face.
All details and full webcast here: http://science.house.gov/publications/hearings_markups_details.aspx?NewsID=2117

Congressman Brian Baird asked a question on Open XML to Bill Gates. In his response, Bill Gates highlights the importance of standards and Open XML in government document preservation, and notes that Open XML standardization will have many benefits. Congressman Baird complements Gates on Microsoft's standards efforts in this space.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Open+XML
• OOXML
• interoperability
• bill+gate

[druckertinte224]

@oparunz Microsoft doesn't produce Computers, idiot -.-

[oparunz]

I like micrsoft computer but Apple is more better... as i know

[letstalktechshow]

well bill good for ur Open XML but that just got u sued by I4I. just steeling another program

[mangeese]

Thats discusting.

[jgm1234567]

i wanna suck bill gates off for bein the reason for xbox 360. ur a God bill

[Osaispa]

OOXML promises interoperability with earlier closed binary formats (the Word Doc, older Excel etc.). But it doesn't deliver. How on earth could someone be able to convert old binary files to the new format without having the specification of the old formats and a mapping to OOXML? If you are to translate some text from Chinese to English, it doesn't much help to only know English. MS-OOXML is no better than ODF here because proprietary parts can't be included in a ISO specification.

[0tuco0]

How sad. These representatives drink Microsoft's Kool-Aide faster than they spend Microsoft's money.

No one but Microsoft can implement the full OOXML standard. How does that work as an open standard, Billy-boy? And their promise not to sue is not guaranteed in the future as is changes to the specification.

Yes, this is just another attempt to protect their cash cow and lock users into their product which contradicts what an ISO standard should be.