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+Lacking community support of its [much maligned][1] OOXML file format, Microsoft decided earlier this week to fake it. In yet another bid to fast track the OOXML format for ISO certification, Microsoft has posted an [online petition][6] positing grassroots support for OOXML, which has thus far seen [very little support][5] outside the walls of Redmond.
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+Mark Taylor, the founder of the [Open Source Consortium][7], tells [ZDNet UK][8], "in the open-source world, there's clearly a massive grassroots thing." Taylor thinks that Microsoft is trying to apply the old adage if you can't make it, fake it. 
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+"One of the lessons Microsoft has been trying to learn from open source is that -- but they have to fake it." Taylor argues that if there were actually any grassroots support of the OOXML petition it would have been created "ages ago."
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+OOXML has been [criticized][2] since its inception and with [more and more U.S. states][3] moving toward the existing OpenDocument Format over OOXML, Microsoft is facing an increasingly uphill battle with OOXML.
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+An earlier attempt at posting an open letter to the open source community [backfired][4] with most critics dismissing it as whining while one former Microsoft employee went so far as to call the letter "professionally embarrassing." 
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+Thus far the online petition is receiving pretty much the same reaction. 
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+Marino Marcich of the [OpenDocument Format Alliance][9] told Compiler earlier this month that with over twenty countries objecting to the OOXML proposal, "the road ahead for OOXML will by no means be easy."
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+Taylor also suggested to ZDNet that Microsoft was "in major trouble trying to get Open XML pushed through" and the petition "shows their worry."
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/microsofts_ooxm.html "Microsoft's OOXML Format Receives More Setbacks"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/more_on_microso.html "More On Microsoft's OOXML Format"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/california_eyes.html "California Eyes Move Towards ODF, Away from OOXML"
+[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/microsofts_open.html "Microsoft's Open Letter Whine"
+[5]: http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/01/72403 "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs"
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+[6]: http://microsoft.co.uk/openxml/ "OOXML petition"
+[7]: http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/ "Open Source Consortium"
+[8]: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39286647,00.htm "Microsoft criticised for Open XML petition"
+[9]: http://www.odfalliance.org/ "OpenDocument Format Alliance"
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+Microsoft Petition A Desperate Bid to Gain OOMXL Support
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