OOXML Will Pass Amid Massive Irregularities 329
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from the all-over-but-the-shouting-and-the-antitrust-probes dept.
Tokimasa notes a CNet blog predicting that OOXML will make the cut. Updegrove agrees, as does the OpenMalasia blog. Reports of irregularities continue to surface, such as this one from Norway — "The meeting: 27 people in the room, 4 of which were administrative staff from Standard Norge. The outcome: Of the 24 members attending, 19 disapproved, 5 approved. The result: The administrative staff decided that Norway wants to approve OOXML as an ISO standard." Groklaw adds reportage of odd processes in Germany and Croatia.
Gross sounding title (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gross sounding title (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I Don't Get It? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is getting ridiculous (Score:2, Funny)
Wait, are you suggesting that Microsoft didn't bribe a dozen counties, at a hundred or more people, and pull off the biggest corporate cover-up in history (aside from the brilliant and astute readers of Slashdot who have worked diligently to uncover this plot) just so they could get their document format adopted as an ISO standard--something which will yield them little to no gain because the market share of Office essentially requires competitive document compatibility?
You most obviously and certainly, as a very wise man once said (probably Cowboyneal), must be new here.
Re:Gross sounding title (Score:5, Funny)
There's a word for this. (Score:4, Funny)
There's a word to describe the activity of making that kind of change. Microsoft uses this word to describe itself all the time.
The word is: innovation.
strange results (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This is getting ridiculous (Score:0, Funny)
Re:This is getting ridiculous (Score:4, Funny)
Easy Fix (Score:5, Funny)
That's the MS standard out the window as it thinks 1900 was a leap year.