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India Decides to Vote "No" For OOXML

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-undecided dept.

Indian writes to mention that after an intense meeting at Delhi's Manak Bhawan the 21-member technical committee has decided to vote against Microsoft's Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language (OOXML) standard at the September meeting of the International Standards Organization (ISO). "Microsoft said it respects the government's decision. 'There were only three options "Yes", "No" and "Abstain" to be taken and we respect the government's decision,' Microsoft's legal affairs head Rakesh Bakshi said. He, however, added that India's 'No' vote will become a 'Yes' if Microsoft is able to resolve all technical issues with OOXML before the ballot resolution committee of ISO."

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  1. India by DogDude · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Based on what I've seen from H1-B's, even if India does manage to implement some nation-wide data format standard, I'll wager it won't be implemented correctly in most cases (thus requiring an expensive re-write after the fact).

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  2. India does something right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have worked with companies and people from India before, and they never seem to be able to do anything right. Ever. This is a glitch in the system, doing something right, but it couldn't have come at a better time.

  3. India? Cattle shit in the streets India? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    India? Cattle shit in the streets India? My god if that place doesn't have enough problems that it has to worry about some god forsaken crap spec that no one understands.

    Not Dr. Bombay