OOXML Vote Tracker and Calculation Guide

Andy Updegrove writes "The vote on Microsoft's OOXML closes today. The final result will not be announced (or leak) before sometime early next week. Meanwhile the votes of individual countries continue to come in, currently with more reported switching in favor of OOXML than against it. For the benefit of those who want to keep track of how the vote is tending until it's official, I'm posting the running tally of which votes have switched, what the net change has been, now many votes have come to light, and how many remain to be announced. It's likely that it will not be possible to know the final result until all votes are in, due to the complex double test for approval, and the complication that the final number of abstentions — and whether they move from 'yes' or 'no' votes — can decrease the total number of votes that need to switch to 'yes' in order for OOXML to be approved. For that reason, I also include the algorithm for arriving at a final result."

Comments

They all say MSXML Fails.

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By your more recent source MSXML still fails:

If the British Standards Institution (BSI) registers a vote in favor, Office Open XML would pass one of two criteria to becoming a standard, but fail the other.

Worse for them, it's not a given the Policy Panel will switch the vote. The Register did not distinguish between the Technical Committee and the Policy Panel. The policy people don't have to do what the obviously undermined TC says and might not go through the tedious process of changing their previous recommendation.

Further, the lobbying of the TC by Microsoft may be yet another improper move. The members are not supposed to be known much less harassed, bribed and otherwise courted. That they were and came out with such a contradictory statement stinks.

Your other article, by the way, links to same text as the first. Thanks for looking it up.