Joseph wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Fred A. Miller wrote:
Microsoft: OOXML wins ISO approval
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft is now confirming that OOXML won the vote
for ISO standards approval. Reports indicate that the OOXML won 75
percent of the vote after being soundly defeated last fall.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1304&tag=nl.e589
That's if you can claim they "won" after all the cheating etc., that
went on. Apparently there are at least a couple of protests in the
works.
So what does this mean, if I may ask?
In what respect? As things stand, it will become an ISO "standard".
However, unlike most other ISO standards, there was blatant cheating,
such as ballot stuffing, committees ignoring majority votes, "rules"
made up on the fly, bought votes etc., to the point there's a real stink
being raise, to the point in at least two countries, the committees are
filing protests. It's quite plain to see that in this case, ISO
approval was bought, which means that all ISO standards must now be
suspect, as you don't know if someone paid for them. However, what
happens if enough votes are reversed to kill this?
The whole point of this, was so that Microsoft could claim "ISO
standard", so that government etc., are more likely to buy their new
office versions, in order to force lock in.
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