US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

Fernando — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:46:08 GMT

I think only possible liar in this case would be the one that posted that "OOXML Fails to Gain Approval in US" when in fact none of this happened.

But still "liar" is a too strong word for the IBM spinmasters. "Desperate" would be more appropriate. After fueling a multimillion campaign trying to block OOXML to become a standard, failure will probably mean that heads will roll within IBM.

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

Andrew Hilton — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:31:37 GMT

Brian Jones allows comments like yours in his blog, yet Rob Wier does not. Where's the ethics there?

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

Justin — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:42:26 GMT

"The decision by the INCITS Executive Board to issue a ballot of "yes" with comments shows positive momentum behind ISO/IEC ratification of Open XML. It reflects the importance of allowing users to choose the format that best meets their needs, and the fact that innovation and evolution will take place over time."

LIAR.

The only thing it reflects is that there are Microsoft Business Partners voting now. There is NO thought for what is important to a user.

Please read this link which shows the voting trend, and the comments, which have a link to the Microsoft Business partners who are now fluffing the votes.

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/ooxml-fails-to-gain-approval-in-us.html

Have you no ethics?

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

I'm Brian Jones — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:24:35 GMT

We've discussed that. I don't know if it would happen before the voting is done though. Most likely it would happen afterwards, as we start to prepare for the ballot resolution meeting (the comments aren't really official until then). We'll see though, as I agree it would help give the NBs more confidence that their comments will be dealt with.

-Brian

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

hAl — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:27:57 GMT

Ecma could make it a lot easier to get support for approval votes (with comments) if they were to give some insight into likely changes (other then fixing a lot of small editorial items)

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

I'm Brian Jones — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 22:16:27 GMT

We're already working really hard in Ecma reviewing the comments that have been made public so far.

-Brian

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

Francis — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:29:25 GMT

Good news, though I hope Microsoft genuinely does take the comments seriously.

I suspect that the next version of Office will address some of the technical objections raised, as many of the latter are transitional issues (such as the lingering presence of VML, bitmasks, numeric settings.) To the extent that Office 14 does that, you might want to consider accelerating work on the relevant bits and backporting the resultant code to an SP1 for Office 2007.

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

Greg Strockbine — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:20:25 GMT

Open XML is there to keep the monopoly going. I'm sad that one company has so much clout. I wish you would stop the word play and drop the "Open" from the name. It is MS XML after all.

re: US will take a vote on “yes with comments”

jim — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:56:23 GMT

mmmm...

this doesn't smell good