[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/6/2018 9:42 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 2/6/2018 8:56 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 02/06/2018 08:44 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>> In article <fdugjiFi38kU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon 
>>>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On 02/06/2018 02:11 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>>>> That said, Excel got it wrong.  The spreadsheets I write out display
>>>>>> properly with Numbers, LibreOffice, Gnumeric and even an app called
>>>>>> Shheets on my Android tablet.  So, please tell me again. why should I
>>>>>> use WEENDOZE?
>>>>>
>>>>> Was your job to write out an Excel Spreadsheet or a
>>>>> Numbers|LibreOffice|Gnumeric|Shheets Spreadsheet?
>>>>> You originally said "an Excel Spreadsheet".  The
>>>>> customer is a Windows customer so we can assume they
>>>>> wanted an Excel Spreadsheet.  If the spreadsheet
>>>>> you created doesn't work with Excel how is it that
>>>>> Excel got it wrong?
>>>>
>>>> http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c071691_ISO_IEC_29500-1_2016.zip#en 
>>>>
>>>> Download it and read it.  Then, unzip an Excel .XLSX and look at its 
>>>> contents.
>>>
>>> Wait, was the job requirement to provide a spreadsheet meeting some
>>> ISO standard or an Excel Spreadsheet.  You said an Excel Spreadsheet.
>>
>> Excel has by default saved in ISO 29500 format since version 2007.
>>
>> Excel format and ISO 29500 format is the same today.
> 
> I think we're all aware that "the standard" is whatever Microsoft says 
> it is ..

In this case the standard is 6000 pages from ISO and ECMA.

I believe it is ECMA TC45 that is driving the standard work
(producing new editions).

Microsoft is obviously very active in that (the chairman is
from MS), but a bunch of other companies and organizations are
participating: Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library,
Essilor, The Gnome Foundation, Intel, The Library of Congress,
NextPage, Novell, Statoil, and Toshiba.

Arne