OOXML Rumored to be Approved, Announcement Wednesday

dominux writes "Rumors are already circulating that Microsoft's OOXML has been voted in by the standards board. The Open Sourcerer claims to have results of the ballot on dis29500. According to the site Microsoft managed to flip enough countries to make it stick. 75% of the P members who didn't abstain voted for Microsoft (That is 58% of all the P members). 14% of all the P and O members voted to disapprove it, this includes all the new O members that joined just in time to cast their vote. Norway has asked that their vote be suspended due to voting irregularities, but it would take more than that to make a difference to the result. ZDNet is still playing it cautious, noting that an announcement either way is set to be made on Wednesday."

April Fools?

[Kinthelt]

This had better be an April Fool's joke.

announcement tomorrow

[farker haiku]

because nobody would believe it if it was made today.

Sounds to me like...

[FlyByPC]

The Microsoft way
(tho' rather funny)
Seems here to stay;
Redmond has money!
Burma Shave

ISO = I Sold Out

[Anonymous Coward]

nuff said

Re:With thanks

[JeanBaptiste]

but did you see the way ISO was dressed? she totally deserved it.

Re:"Slashdot is a useless pile of crap" day.

[everphilski]

I thought we celebrated that day, every day :)

Re:With thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

Besides the punter was a bit rough, but she got paid, didn't she? It's an ugly business, and I don't approve, but what's a working girl to do?

If she's got second thoughts now ... well, call the cops. She can give the ill-gotten gains to charity, and we'll say no more about it.

Now I get it!

[Jason Levine]

This whole OOXML ISO Standards thing was just an elaborate April Fool's Joke that Microsoft orchestrated. Man, they really had us going, didn't they?

not Gnome's fault, blame KDE

[seyyah]

Check it out: http://dot.kde.org/20080401/" [kde.org]

BSI corruption

[Anonymous Coward]

MS corruption is rife in the UK, so much so that the greasy-palmed
BSI changed from no to yes on OOXML.

Searching for "corruption" on the BSI site quickly finds
BIP 3018:2004 "Ethics and Anti-Corruption DVD"
http://www.bsi-global.com/en/Shop/Publication-Detail/?pid=000000000030130847 [bsi-global.com],
a snip at £680.85. Status "withdrawn", I wonder why?

Not all bad

[Einmaliger]

This is not necessarily a bad thing. If it's standardized, Microsoft might be motivated to finally come up with a product that actually implements the whole thing.

Tonight we're gonna party...

[wiredlogic]

...DoinItLikeWord95DoesIt.

ISO introduces new standard for corruption

[Anonymous Coward]

The new ISO standard ISO/IEC 29500 allows the assessment of corruption in countries, organizations and individuals based on a dual-logarithmic scale which correlates potential and de-facto corruption to optimise investment for multinationals.

Gabriel Garter of ISO comments, "We are very proud to launch this latest international standard, which is now ready for deployment. This was a global effort which required the help of organisations and individuals with years of experience in achieving corruption to finally allow us to provide this valuable service to the market."

ECMA International, the leading standardization organization in this field adds, "We were glad that years of expertise at forcing low-quality technical documentation through ISO for certification with minimum modification proved to be so useful for this new international standard."

Microsoft, the world's largest software company comments, "Microsoft is glad that we could be of use to this project. Over the years we have assembled a valuable compendium of in-house knowledge about various corruption techniques. While these techniques constitute our intellectual property and we would pursue method-piracy to the full extent of the law, we will be offering a licensing program with reduced fees for all Microsoft Gold Partners who participated in the project."

"Our special thanks and gratitude go to Jan van der Beld, whose tireless efforts to selfishly spread corruption have been our source of inspiration," concludes Garter. "In honor of his work, we decided to introduce a special motto for this new international standard. The phrase 'You are well paid. Shut up!' will be printed in bold on the header of every page of ISO/IEC 29500, quoting Mr van den Belds most inspiring speech available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wITyO71Et6g [youtube.com]."

Re:Yeah right!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well you know how it is. People start talking about how there should be only one of something, and the next thing you know there's guys with swords, decapitations in parking garages, random explosions-

I mean, sure it was neat the first time, but...

Microsoft admits manipulation, abandons OOXML

[michuk]

Guys, this is an April Fools joke! Here is the real story, basing on the Jason Matusow's blog post from today: Microsoft admits manipulation, abandons OOXML [polishlinux.org].