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Local authority trading standards professionals teamed up with police in 14 areas of the country for a day-long operation to clamp down on doorstep criminals and bogus traders. They swooped on residential areas, looking for tell-tale signs of rogue trader and distraction burglar activity - and identified a total of 433 crimes, of which 102 were trading standards offences. In some areas, the Department of Work and Pensions, the Immigration Service, the Vehicle Operator Services Agency and Environment officers also took part, detecting a further 140 offences.

The Software Freedom Law Center has analyzed Microsoft's "Open Specification Promise" that accompanies OOXML and found it seriously lacking for FOSS developers.

I have yet to see creativity from M$. Ask yourself, are you M$ Guinea Pig? Do you know one? Do you want M$ to suppress ODF?

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Jeremy Allison has learned a lesson from the past with the standardisation of CIFS: Microsoft will refuse any change that forces them to make modifications in the 'already shipped' Office 2007.

Many people were surprised to see how Russian Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology had voted Yes without any comments on OOXML. An article by the Russian IT-review Cnet relates some facts.

Standard Norway has today voted to disapprove OOXML on the grounds that the specification is insufficiently open.

(Rough translation) Standard Norge support a standard which best make it possible for users to gain access to old documents. They have found to many weaknesses in OOXML in its current form, to decide on an approval vote. http://www.standard.no/imaker.exe?id=17235

Slashdot reports that the Swedish SIS has invalidated their own decision to support OpenXML.

Sweden's SIS changed their vot to absstain after many problems became public knowledge.

Palestinian Standards Institute, sent the ISO Regional Liaison Officer For The Arab And Medit. Region informing that they are against the adoption of the standards.

I could not find a contact e-mail address for noooxml.org, hence I am using this route. Kindly evaluate the feedback given below and verify.

August 20th update from Finland - The vote results and begin of aftermath. In brief: Finland doesnt say anything on OOXML. (Abstains)

Finally we got the voting results in Italy. If you have time to identify the Microsoft partners...