OOXML: Cuba, India, Brazil vote no, as deadline looms (and meow)
Date : 2008 03 26 Category : Tech & Development
Computerworld Blogs - LinuxPlease ratify IT Blogwatch: in which the Open XML standardization process approaches a key milestone. Not to mention a new interpretation of a Douglas Adams joke...
Kelly Fiveash feverishly reports:
Cuba and India are the latest countries to vote against Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) file format being adopted by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Meanwhile Germany and the US confirmed that they won't be backing down on their call for the format to be ISO/IEC-approved. The decisions from national delegates from 33 countries who took part in the DIS29500 ballot resolution meeting in Geneva in late February have been trickling in ahead of this Saturday’s crucial deadline ...