World awaits crucial votes on Microsoft's Open XML
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| There are two upcoming votes on the fate of Microsoft's Office Open XML, a
| document format that has brought about bare-knuckle business tactics and
| fierce philosophical disputes.
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| Meanwhile, Microsoft rivals are accusing the company of bullying its way
| through a standards process.
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| "The fundamental question is whether a large company with a lot of money and
| business partners will essentially be able to stack committees so that they
| are out of balance and therefore buy an ISO standard. I, for one, do not
| think this is appropriate. I doubt ISO does either," Bob Sutor, IBM's vice
| president of open source and standards, wrote earlier this month in his
| personal blog.
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Defeat M$ efforts to push Ecma OOXML in Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
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| There are Updates from Massachusetts, South Africa, Japan, Portugal, Spain
| etc. It Failed to get approval even in USA. South Africa TC Rejects OOXML 13
| to 4
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| So Say No To Microsoft Office Broken Format OOXML .
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