Dissecting the "Malaysian Halal Hub Open XML System"
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| So is it Malaysianising Microsoft, or is it Microsofting Malaysia?
| Microsoft's paranoia and drive to make MSOOXML an international standard may
| just be its own demise.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/01/dissecting-the.html
Related:
Malaysia warms to OOXML ... ?
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| With great "wins" like this, I always wondered why the Microsofties did not
| trumpet these case studies of wonderful "industry acceptance" of MSOOXML any
| louder? Its a gold-mine to announce that independent system vendors have
| wholly adopted their spanking new specification? This is further proof that
| ISO should ratify MSOOXML immediately with this worldwide support.
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| So is it "Well done, Microsoft Malaysia?" or is a timebomb just waiting to
| explode ala Sweden?
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/01/malaysia-warms.html
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
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
Microsoft accused of more OOXML standards fiddling
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| However the 11 new countries are refusing to say how they will vote. These
| include Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Ecuador, Jamaica, Lebanon, Malta, Pakistan,
| Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela. Most people seem to think
| that these have been put there by Vole to make sure the standard gets pushed
| through.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42106
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