It is not acceptable for an international standard to be designed primarily around the goal of compatibility with a particular company’s products. This is particularly inappropriate where, as in the present case, compatibility with an existing international standard is neglected in favor of the one-sided goal of maximal compatibility with document file formats introduced by one company, and where the proposed standard does not provide equal opportunities for compatibility to that company’s present and future competitors. Unless this shortcoming of OOXML/DIS 29500 is fixed, accepting this specification as a national or international standard would be a violation of national and international law.

Change the goal from being "fully compatible" with "existing investments in Microsoft Office documents" to seeking at attain the same high level of compatibility not only with Microsoft’s formats, but also with the international norm ISO/IEC 26300 (OpenDocument). Review the entire draft standard and modify it corresponding to this revised goal.

Part 1, introduction (page xii) and entire document

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Proposed Disposition of DIS 29500 Comment GR-0011 (Modified: 2008-01-04) Agreed; the following changes will be made to Parts 1, 3, and 4, §Introduction, page vii, line 8: The goal is to enable the implementation of the Office Open XML formats by the widest set of tools and platforms, fostering interoperability across office productivity applications and line-of-business systems, as well as to support and strengthen document archival and preservation, all in a way that is fully compatible with the large existing investments corpus of in Microsoft Office documents. Similar Comments: CA-0015 , CO-0001 , CO-0006 , GB-0127 , IR-0007 , KE-0019 , US-0272