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A few details about the partnership between the Romanian government and Microsoft have been published.

In '04 Hugo Lueders' messages were getting sour. Still some bloggers argue with the self-proclaimed representative of the electrical industry.

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"No, no, there are no problems in Norway" tells the Standards Body to the EU Commission. The Standards Body did not even noticed the 37 letters of Microsoft Business Partners.

Microsoft pays taxes in India

Unbelievable: Norway contests its own vote at ISO

The chairman of the Norwegian standards committee responsible for evaluating OOXML sent a formal protest regarding the Norwegian vote

How to follow the international vote

The Chairwomen of the Technical Committee in Poland rewrite the voting rules in favor of the company of Redmond, and distributes propaganda written by Microsoft Netherlands. That's when the polish sausages begins to smoke.

Commentor on Channel Register who worked on reviewing the fast track document surprised at BSI rumours. Suggests contact information to lobby BSI.

Please post a map for us to observe rhe evolution of national votes.

A foss-vendor reporting from the OOXML process in Romania

In the last days, new members keep applying in the Romanian NB, CT210 comitee at ASRO

Bristol City Council's switch to StarOffice in 2005 has led to a major reduction of IT costs, says Gavin Beckett, the council's ICT Strategy manager.

A good summary of the standaridazion process so far and the controversies and problems afflicting MS-OOXML.

Rob Weir addresses in detail ODF-editor Durusau's pro-OOXML position and eloquently argues that there is no good reason to support OOXML becoming an ISO standard.

After the BRM, Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society has now recommended its standards body to maintain its "abstain" vote from Sept 2.

van der Beld characterizes the Geneva meeting as typical: "The cheering and applause that I could hear OUTDOORS at the end of the meeting – I did NOT attend the BRM itself – gave me confirmation that it must have been a normal BRM, although a large one. The spirit of the FT process must have been in that room: seeking an ever broadening support for an FT proposal, first in Ecma, and then on a global scale in ISO/IEC in a fully open process. Also there I’m fully in line with Patrick Durusau’s article about that."

According to a Friday blog post by Microsoft employee Doug Mahugh, V1 voted to recommend that INCITS maintain its Approve position on DIS 29500, the name for the OOXML proposal. [...] The news was confirmed by by Patrick Durusau, the V1 chairman, who wrote in an e-mail that the vote was 17 'Yes', 4 'No', zero abstentions, and 1 absent. Durusau wrote that [...] it would be unlikely that INCITS would override its recommendation and change its vote now.