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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Seen Losing OOXML Battle, Despite Its Many Crimes

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] Microsoft Seen Losing OOXML Battle, Despite Its Many Crimes
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:12:22 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
OOXML decision two sleeps away

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| With less than two days to go before the International Standards Organization 
| (ISO) decides on whether or not to approve Microsoft’s Office Open XML 
| (OOXML), lovers and haters of the format are intensifying their arguments for 
| a last hurrah.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| For OOXML to be approved, at least two thirds of the participating countries 
| need to have voted in favour of the format, and no more than one quarter of 
| the total number of votes can be negative.  
| 
| As things stand, numbers are not looking good for Microsoft. 18 countries 
| have voted in favour of OOXML, and 14 countries have voted against it. Nine 
| countries, including Australia, have chosen to abstain from the vote.  
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/72851,ooxml-decision-two-sleeps-away.aspx

If Microsoft indeed loses, what will it blame? Bill Gates for not phoning
enough presidents? The 'bribery budget' being set too low?


Earlier:

Kenya Changes From Yes to Abstain! Denmark Says No; EU Commission Investigating
Poland - Updated 5Xs - Mexico

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| [...]
| 
| And more news from troubled Poland, with news that the EU Commission is 
| investigating the process in that country. Things have reportedly gone from 
| bad to worse there, with threats of lawsuits in the air if folks talk 
| publicly about what is happening.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| [More bits about Poland, Finland, software patents in OOXML]
| 
| [....]
| 
| Get a load of this, will you? Participants at the BRM were told that only 
| technical issues can be addressed. Bill Gates, however, reportedly contacted 
| the president of Mexico to try to influence Mexico to accept OOXML. Unless, 
| of course, they were talking about representing dates in Excel or other 
| technical issues. Hardy har. Like, totally. I'm sure.    
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080327104739103


Related:

EU Initiates Investigation Against Microsoft OOXML Push

,----[ Quote ]
| But with Steve Ballmer taking over as CEO, there was supposed to be a kinder, 
| gentler Microsoft - one that would play nicely with its competitors.  When 
| antitrust regulators in turn challenged this new Microsoft, it issued not 
| challenges to fight to the end to prove that it had done nothing illegal, but 
| statements promising to "cooperate fully."    
| 
| But at the same time, Microsoft is still a tough competitor.  As Microsoft's 
| Director of Corporate Standards Jason Matusow famously warned at his blog 
| last year:  
| 
|     Make no mistake; all parties are looking at the full picture to find 
|     strategies that will result in the outcome they desire. Provided - of 
|     course - that they do so within the context of the rules that apply to 
|     the process, this is exactly what one should expect to happen. It is 
|     going to be a very interesting next few months.    
| 
| Indeed, the months that followed proved to be interesting indeed.  Microsoft 
| said that some of its employees became over zealous, most flagrantly in 
| Sweden, where marketing assists were promised to several business partners as 
| incentives to join the national standards committee and vote for OOXM.   
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080208082501776


EU Commission Investigating Microsoft's MSOOXML Push

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| I hope they think to investigate the smear campaigns that seem to always 
| happen to anyone on the other side from Microsoft. What happened to Peter 
| Quinn was by no means unique.  
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080208151410252


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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