This meant that, except for Microsoft Office, noother application supporting OOXML would be able to faithfully recreate the look ofMicrosoft’s legacy binary formats. However, as the OracleCorporate Architecture group had noticed (see ), NO standardized mapping of binaryformats to OOXML were provided, and Microsoft refused to provide such mappings beforethe ballot took place on April 2, 2008. In reply to criticism (1) above, Microsoft posted on its site (see and ), and thusoutside the ISO scope, the binary Office document specifications.Such legacy documents may just as easily be translated to ODF (as can be seen in the way some existing ODF implementations handle the import of the legacy Microsoft Office file formats). No specifications for older document formats exist in the OOXML descriptions, and so any argument that OOXML is needed for their accurate translation is false. Without this OOXML would be incomplete in its descriptions for an ISO standard. …if OOXML were necessary to faithfully convert these legacy documents to an XML format, it would have to contain the complete specification of these older document formats.
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