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ISO Says No To Microsoft's OOXML Standard
qcomp writes "The votes are in and Microsoft has lost for now, reports the FFII's campaign website OOXML. The 2/3 majority needed to proceed with the fast-track standardization has not been achieved. Now the standard will head to the ballot resolution meeting to address the hundreds of technical comments submitted along with the votes." Here is yesterday's speculation as to how the vote would turn out.
It ain't over 'till the fat man throws a chair...
Faux standard was not certified.
[A]bort, [R]etry, [F]ail?
"I think an etch-a-sketch with an ethernet port would beat IE7 in web standards compliance."
I'll get you next time, Gadget! Next time!
The banks will be happy with the fresh large money transfers
In a recent development MSFT spokesman said that, one standard specifying body meets all is not a viable workable solution for the whole world. Mr Tong'n Cheek said that Microsoft will promote an alternative standard specifying body Open ISO. He said that Microsoft wants its customers to have a choice in international bodies creating standards, choice in standards themselves too. This way users can have various choices like, OpenISO certified OOXML saving MSFT product, or ISO certified OOXML saving MSFT product or, uncertified OOXML saving MSFT product or unsupported ODF saving MSFT product or...
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
...of fair business practices and open standards I don't see why there is all this backlash against OOXML. I mean, it's gonna be a de facto standard anyway. Why fight it? Imagine if the same kind of stance were taken with operating systems. Some boneheads out there decide that they're going to take on Microsoft which owns the de facto OS platform and they put together their own OS. How far would that get them? Especially if they tried to get people to actually use it! I'd say that it would probably take them a good forty or fifty years of work to break even. Why bother? I mean, just imagine if something that monumentally stupid was attempted. We'd probably have compatibility issues for decades before anything got better! I say, just let Microsoft do what it wants and everything will be a-OK.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
Sir, your name is indeed well-chosen. I applaud you for making the worst analogy I have heard all day - which is truly an accomplishment, as I teach undergraduates how to communicate.
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand" - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
*shiver*
You've seen EMACS, right?
(I'm kidding you bastards!)
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
ID: the nose did not occur naturally, how would we wear glasses otherwise? (apologies to Voltaire)
4. All of the above
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.