NoOOXML

The italian standardization body, Uninfo, has published the result of voting. It seems that ooxml has been disapproved.

From finland; the complete tally. The participating members voted 9 abstain, 17 Approve and 15 Disapprove

Accordung to a document from the EFF Finland the 2/3 majority of the P members hasn't been reached.

Ireland disapproved OOXML with comment

OSS Alliance started the website ooxml.cz where problems in Office Open XML proposal are demonstrated in simple sentences and evidences from the specification itself.

Lack of consensus

The OpenOffice.org site maintains a list of implementations for this business suite - which usually means that these people use OpenDocument too. If you use OpenDocument day by day, at work, in a significant large implementation, please enter your business name here.

I will not be billed although I submitted comments to the standard proposal, presumably because the process was unfair.

23 companies joined the Swedish Standards Institute SIS at the last minute to participate in the vote on OOXML. All but one are Microsoft partners and voted for accepting the new standard without having been part of any discussion.

In a recent post, it seems thar U.S. incits reconsidered its position to deny OOXML.

"The email I received included a direct link which opens my email client and puts on the body 'A Favor' which means 'I AGREE' o 'YES'. The recipient for this email was the person in charge of the votes, but this link included CCs to Microsoft emails! ... What!? .... They want to know how many of us voted and what was the vote? Why? Is this illegal? Is this ethic? Why nobody here in Mexico sees this clear illegal and biased tactic to ensure a Mexico vote on YES to the standard?"

Need I say more

The Irish Technical Committee responsible for IT will meet on Monday to decide Ireland's position on the OOXML draft.

There are rumors, not yet confirmed, that, despite its own INCITS, ANSI voted YES for Microsoft.

There appears to be an as yet unpublicisesd connecttion between the roubel with Vista and the submisison of OOXML to ISO via ECMA

OpenMalaysia has launched a caption contest using the Microsoft propaganda. <W:t t:e f:ck>? [[image http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/images/2007/08/24/ooxmlcaption.jpg]]

India on Thursday gave Microsoft a thumbs-down in the war of standards for office documents.

There is a fundamental problem with the "abstain" vote. This letter has been sent to the ISO JTC1 and SC34 officials.

According to an article in today's Irish Times, Ireland's expert group is recommending an 'abstain' vote. There was a majority in favour of a 'no with comments' but not the two-thirds needed to make a recommendation.