[Tfug] ISO Approves OOXML ... Announcement Wednesday

[John Mc]

ISO Approves OOXML
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 01, @06:50PM
from the looks-like-no-joke dept.
http://slashdot.org/articles/08/04/01/2229207.shtml

...writes in, with the hope that this is an April Fools joke. Doesn't 
look like it though. An article up at Intellectual Property Watch claims 
they have obtained a document 
http://www.ip-watch.org/files/JTC_1_SC_34_2008-04-01_-_Result_of_voting_on_ISO_IEC_DIS_29500.pdf 
(PDF) enumerating the vote after Microsoft's OOXML won ISO standard 
status. http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=986
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OOXML Rumored to be Approved, Announcement Wednesday
Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 01, @09:18AM
from the long-hard-slog dept.
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/04/01/1240241.shtml

"Rumors are already circulating that Microsoft's OOXML has been voted in 
http://www.crn.com/software/207000671 by the standards board. The Open 
Sourcerer claims to have results of the ballot on dis29500. 
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/04/01/ooxml-dis29500-result-approved 
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, 
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2211 noting that an announcement 
either way is set to be made on Wednesday."
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ISO and IEC approve Office Open XML document format standard
http://www.ecma-international.org/news/TC45_current_work/ISO_and_IEC_approve_Office_Open_XML.htm