Norway and OOXML
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| IDG.se reports that a template letter was sent by Microsoft in Norway for
| partners to send to the technical committee there. And in fact 37 identical
| letters were sent, but as it turned out, many of the companies just sent in
| the letter without even signing it. Over half of all the comments received
| were in the pro-Microsoft pile.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200708301301334
Similar to the kickbacks in Sweden.
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
OOXML News From Denmark
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| It appears that pressure was put on partners there as well, although
| Microsoft denies that was the intent.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070831002558681
INCITS confirms: US to vote for Open XML in ISO
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1801051668&rid=-50
INCITS said "No". Then, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates started making phonecalls
to politicians.
Microsoft's OOXML provokes standards turmoil in France
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| Microsoft, notably, disagreed with this consensus, and sought for the French
| vote to ISO to be an abstention.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=2027207136&rid=-50
It was a brawl, according to Hiser. Same old tricks. Panel stacking and
partners. Now in English:
Hungarian Standards Institution to reconsider its vote!
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-18042/hungarian-standards-institution-to-reconsider-its-vote
Again, politicians get involved and Microsoft partners want to storm the
panels.
Microsoft takes off gloves in open documents battle
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| Microsoft’s fight to get file formats for its Word, Access, Excel and
| Powerpoint products accepted by the ISO standards organisation is getting
| nasty.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/compliance/news/index.cfm?newsid=4939
Yesterday:
Open XML standard war grows heated
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| Similar Microsoft vote-stuffing activities have also been reported in Denmark
| and Norway.
|
| [...]
|
| Some countries, such as Brazil, China, India and Canada, have already
| announced that they have voted against Open XML. The final result on whether
| Open XML will make the grade as an ISO standard will be announced on Sept. 2.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2810967760.html
Microsoft's Failures with the OOXML Standard
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| The sad part is that even if the ISO vote actually goes in Microsoft’s
| favour, it still won’t matter. It buys them a few years of market ignorance
| at best. This entire two year event is one for the standards text books on
| how not to respond to a business threatening standard. In the end, Microsoft
| will need to implement ODF natively. They don’t know it yet, nor do they
| understand why, but it is just a matter of time.
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http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/08/microsofts-fail.html
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