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I just want to add a lie that was corrected several times and discussed "In May 2004, governments and the European Union recommended to Microsoft that they publish and standardize their XML Office formats through a standardization organization.[16][17]" has been reverted several times. We had lengthy discussions. The links provided do not source the factually incorrect statement. As I argued before I believe the unfaithful editors have a "target text" and regardless what edits or improvements are made they wash down the text to become the target text again. Formulations which were discussed and proven misleading do not reappear by accident. It is time for Wikipedia management to take action and block the responsible persons. The "we must use reliable sources" argument is unsatisfactory as long as the article includes statements where sources that do not confirm the claim, or the argument follows a riddiculous positivism. --Arebenti (talk) 23:10, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I agree with Alvestrand that this would be better in the standardization article. And Arebenti seems right in that the Brian Jones blog post seems irrelevant here. But one of the recommendations of the TAC (the other citation) is that "Microsoft should consider the merits of submitting XML formats to an international standards body of their choice". Perhaps it would be better if this was stated directly (both the body making the statement and the actual words) rather than the loose summary which is there at present. Alexbrn (talk) 05:55, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
More - it turns out this reference was already included in the standardization article, so I have removed it from here. Also removes some similar speculation from this Background section Alexbrn (talk) 08:10, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I strongly disagree. The EU recommendation predates the standardization by a year. It is very significant as background as without that recommedation to Micrsoft and OASIS we likely would not have seen this article exist but in stead have been at a "Microsoft Office 2007 formats" article. That the EU recommends Microsoft to submit their existing office xml format and that Microsoft has done so a year after is a significant part of how the format came to be. hAl (talk) 19:08, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I agree this belongs in the article. The Office Open XML standard might not exist if it was not for this EU recommend. We would be looking at the MS Office 2007 XML format article then. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.111.171.246 (talk) 23:12, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
