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Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-what-you-get-when-you-cheat dept.

Groklaw Reader writes "Just days after Microsoft's attempt to buy the Swedish vote on OOXML came to light, SIS declared its own vote invalid. The post at Groklaw references a ComputerWorld article with revelations from Microsoft: 'Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard. Microsoft said the offer, when discovered, was quickly retracted and that its Sweden managers voluntarily notified the SIS, the national standards body. "We had a situation where an employee sent a communication via e-mail that was inconsistent with our corporate policy," said Tom Robertson, general manager for interoperability and standards at Microsoft. "That communication had no impact on the final vote." ...'"

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  1. Theft by Das+Auge · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well it's good to know that, after I commit my first robbery, every robbery after that is no big deal.

  2. In other words by Trogre · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We had a situation where an employee sent a communication via e-mail that was inconsistent with our corporate policy"

    Sorry we got caught, we'll try not to let it happen again.

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  3. Policy by laron · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We had a situation where an employee sent a communication via e-mail that was inconsistent with our corporate policy"

    Said policy probably states that such communication should never happen over a traceable and archivable medium.

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  4. The diffusion theory of Evil by Colin+Smith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hopefully more people will realize how flat out EVIL that company is because of this. One of the interesting things about Microsoft is the high concentration of evil within the organisation. I have a theory that they have managed to attract or suck the evil from many surrounding areas. This leaves an evil gradient, from those who work in the company, through their trading partners into the general I.T. marketplace where there is now a general lack of evil.

    This is clearly shown by the Google, "Do No Evil" corporate slogan. More a statement of the inability to perform evil due to the concentration gradient and general lack of evil available.

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  5. Re:No impact... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    For those who don't speak swedish, here's a rough translation of the article:

    meekrosuft iz zee bad for zee bribeeng oof zee svedes bork bork bork!

  6. What is microsoft actually trying to achieve? by MSPK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can anyone with some insight into the matter explain to me why microsoft is trying so badly to get OOXML accepted as a standard, and doesn't simply support ODF? Are there technical reasons (are Microsoft Office documents somehow easier to store in OOXML than ODF)? Political reasons (is Microsoft trying to control/corrupt an open standard, kinda like they did with Internet Explorer and HTML)? Cause in the end both formats try to be the exact same thing: An open standard to store documents. Why go through all the trouble?

  7. That makes me wonder... by gringer · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there were a drive to get through an ISO specification on ISO corruption (i.e. the recommended way to influence others to get the specification you want), would that also be corrupted? And if so, would the corruption follow the procedure in the specification?

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