India Votes Against OOXML

harsha_c sends in a local Indian perspective on the vote against Microsoft's OOXML ahead of the March 29 deadline. Of 19 companies participating, only 5 voted in favor of OOXML. "It was the ultimate battle for control over global IT standard for documents — between Microsoft-promoted OOXML and Sun and IBM-backed Open Document Format. It was played out between Indian IT giants, namely Infosys, Wipro, TCS supported by Nasscom on one side and the global IT biggies like IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat backed by te IITs, IIMs and IISc on the other, on their respective positions on Microsoft's OOXML standard. Microsoft understandably expressed its disspointment. 'While we are disappointed with the decision of the BIS committee, we are encouraged by the support from NASSCOM.'

Comments

Re:Hooray! An honest nation!

[pushing-robot]

Microsoft is an American company and as such is subject to influence of the U.S. government.

That's funny; I always thought it was the other way round.

Re:Parent is a virus link

[the_one(2)]

you should have warned about the goatsee to:D I felt relatively secure being on linux and using ff+noscript. Boy did that teach me a lesson!