Egressive's hosting infrastructure has withstood a slashdotting - albeit relatively minor - of
an article by NZOSS president Don Christie on the Society's website.
The NZOSS article discusses the implications of cheeky attempts by Microsoft to ram its faux standard, the misleadingly named "Office Open XML", through the NZ standards system - was featured on the influential US-based tech aggregation site Slashdot. Microsoft has been attempting to gain support for its Microsoft Office-specific in-house, patent encumbered standard to head off the threat that the already internationally accepted Open Document Format (ODF) standard poses to its monopoly.

Microsoft's Office Open XML standard, which despite its name is not particularly open, is an attempt to limit the uptake of ODF which is a proper standard, accepted by the International Standards Organisation (ISO), developed through the normal open standards process by a consortium of interested parties (including, incidentally, Microsoft). The ODF format is widely implemented by other software packages including the free and open source OpenOffice and KOffice suites among others. Microsoft have, to date, steadfastly refused to implement the ODF standard.