Few of OOXML's Flaws Have Been Addressed

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "IBM's Rob Weir has done a study on how many flaws were addressed by the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting. So far, using a random sampling technique, he has yet to find a flaw that was addressed, making the upper bound a paltry 1.5%. Even so, he's found a number of new flaws, including a security vulnerability: OOXML stores passwords in database connection strings in plain text. At least there were no mistakes on five of the first twenty five random pages he reviewed."

Re:Whatever

[Anonymous Coward]

Ballmer is that you?

Re:Small bias?

[pembo13]

Sucks that you can't read the article and assess the level of the bias he displays for yourself.

Re:test

[Anonymous Coward]

failed

Re:Whatever

[el cisne]

"Does the poster have a chair?"

Not any more.....

And now for some selective quotations!

[peacefinder]

OOXML's Flaws Have Been Addressed

"IBM's Rob Weir has done a study on how many flaws were addressed by the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting. So far, using a random sampling technique, he has yet to find a flaw [...] there were no mistakes on [...] the [...] pages he reviewed."

There. Doesn't that sound better? :-)

Re:Small bias?

[setagllib]

What's wrong with publicly stating the religious body backing OOXML development? Microsoft is very fortunate to have so much support from Hell. Why, if they had to supply their own evil or go through commercial channels, the global evil reserves would dry up overnight.

I hope y'all are gentle with them...

[argent]

Considering they provide the email address and phone number of their media contact in that announcement.