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Microsoft lost the ISO OOXML vote, by the way
September 05, 2007
Not that you'd know it from this statement. As Dana Blankenhorn notes, several news sites fell for the spin.
(One even reported a Microsoft victory and hasn't had the good grace to admit it got the headline wrong despite numerous corrections and a misunderstanding of the voting process).
Meanwhile, Mary Jo Foley has an interesting take on why, in her view, Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote.
Her reasons (in short, read her blog for the full explanation) are as follows:
"1. Lobbying is legal. But certain lobbying tactics are not. Microsoft officials admitted that one of the company’s employees behaved inappropriately in Sweden, attempting to influence partners to vote for OOXML approval.
2. Microsoft has a history of changing specs at will and leaving developers in the lurch.
3. Openness is in the eye of the beholder. Microsoft considers OOXML open, yet so far, it hasn’t been able to get its own Mac Office product to interoperate with the new OOXML formats in Office 2007."
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