OOXML probably passes at ISO (and Error'd)
Date : 2008 03 31 Category : Tech & Development
Computerworld Blogs - LinuxIt's IT Blogwatch: in which predictions are that the Microsoft-sponsored Office Open XML format has passed the ISO standards vote. Not to mention strange tooltips and other IT perversions...
Steven Schwankert suggests:
Balloting on whether Office Open XML (OOXML) should become an international document standard closed at midnight Saturday in Geneva, in an apparently tight vote ... two-thirds of participating countries needed to vote in favor of the issue and less than one-quarter of observer countries in opposition to it. A total of 87 nations' standards bodies will [have] cast votes ... A few key vote changes ahead of the final tally could push the measure towards approval ...