Microsoft Standing Firm On OOXML ISO Vote

christian.einfeldt writes "Microsoft has responded via the industry trade group ECMA to some of the thousands of criticisms of its submission of Office Open XML as an ISO standard. Open standards advocate Russell Ossendryver takes a look at those responses to see if Microsoft has made significant changes in either the substance of OOXML or the manner in which the OOXML specification will be maintained going forward. Ossendryver concludes that Microsoft's position has not significantly changed, but only hardened in place in advance of the Ballot Resolution Meeting which is to occur from February 25 through 29 in Geneva. While no one can say for certain whether Microsoft will succeed in having OOXML win the nod from the international community, Ossendryer thinks that Microsoft's firm stance is likely to backfire."

Comments

Here's for holding onto hope

[peragrin]

MSFT has so badly screwed up ISO, I can see many parties who were going to vote yes to change it into No.

directly because of MSFT the ISO has done nothing but stumble around they can't get the majorities that they need in oder to pass standards. Everything is stagnate. Here's to hope that MSFT gamed the system so hard that it blows up in MSFT's face.

Microsoft's Latest Trick

[Anonymous Coward]

And here's their latest trick: sending all the JTC1 NB's a poorly-researched, demonstrably inaccurate study.

Re:well...

[cp.tar]

Which OOXML most certainly isn't. There's real doubts that even Microsoft could implement it as it currently stands.

It's a scam, pure and simple.

So what do we do?

That's right: whenever you receive a .docx, .xlsx and other .*x documents, send them back, asking that they be converted into a readable format.
Include a link for Sun's ODF plugin for MS Office, if need be.

Fight fire with fire.