OOXML Denied INCITS V1 Approval

Xenographic writes "INCITS V1, the US group responsible for the US vote over whether or not ANSI will grant fast-track approval to Microsoft's OOXML format, failed to reach the 2/3 consensus required to recommend OOXML to ANSI. What makes this vote interesting is the graph in the article, showing all the new Microsoft business partners who joined INCITS just this year to vote for OOXML. The INCITS Executive Board will now deliberate further, until they can come to some agreement on what to recommend to ANSI, but it's pretty clear that Microsoft is pushing OOXML as hard as it can."

Comments

OOXML...

[QuietLagoon]

... the best standard that monopoly money can buy.

The questions remains - just how good are the purchased goods?

Standards and Law.

[twitter]

There's no enforement body - that's the difference between the law and a standard.

No. Standards are supposed to reflect and guide best practice. Laws codify people's morals.

Both should be ethically produced and neither is supposed to be sold. M$ has it's ugly hands corrupting both for their purposes at everyone else's expense.

Oh, that's easy.

[twitter]

I've been exchanging MSO2007 documents for six months with Office 2003 users. With no problems at all. It's like I live in this parallel dimension where everything you claim doesn't work actually does.

Let's just say that you and I have different definitions of "works". I should have expected you'd be one of those paying $400 to be the thin edge of the M$ new format wedge. The people you work with must hate you.