3.2 billion people voted NO against OOXML
Although the ISO process gives Malta the same voice as China, the reality is that national support for Microsoft formats is critical to the future of the MS-Office lock-in. We look at the figures behind the NO votes...
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No ISO for Microsoft Means Little
ODF advocates are getting ahead of themselves by celebrating Microsoft's ISO failure.
Microsoft's ISO standardization ambitions for its Office Open XML file format have hit a rough patch, as OOXML recently failed to garner enough votes for fast-track ratification.
ODF (OpenDocument Format) advocates are pleased, but they're fooling themselves if they think that the lack of ISO standardization for OOXML is going to put any kind of a dent in the dominance that Microsoft holds over the office productivity market.
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