Sweden's Vote on OOXML Invalidated

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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When the wrong word goes in the right ear.

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If the vote was really invalidated for those reasons, it was very nice of M$ to confess and blame their actions on yet another "junior" employee. It was also nice of them to not pay the tools who signed up on the day and voted for M$. The only thing consistent here is dishonesty and betrayal.

Sweden will probably not have time to do another round of voting, so it looks as they will abstain.

I hope not. Being able to scuttle an unfavorable vote one way is just as bad as another.

It is good to see the SIS is protecting it's integrity.

Re:It has *seriously* damaged *Sweden's* reputatio

[kennygraham]

If I used random periods. Should i also? use random question marks)

Re:Lies Come Crashing

[Doc Ruby]

Next we will learn that the Pentagon used the "Microsoft Torture" app at Abu Ghraib just because some jerk private downloaded it without telling anyone.