US passes motion for "Yes with comments"

Published 24 August 07 09:11 AM

The INCITS executive board in the US has passed a motion to vote "Yes with comments" on DIS 29500, Office Open XML. Voting details can be found here.

"OOXML Fails to Gain Approval in US"
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by dmahugh
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# the Fake Bob Sutor said on August 24, 2007 6:00 PM:

Rob Weir: Sore loser.

# Carlos said on August 24, 2007 7:04 PM:

I don't understand Dewey and Truman, but congratulations Dough!

# dmahugh said on August 24, 2007 7:16 PM:

Carlos, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Defeats_Truman

# Bruno said on August 25, 2007 4:22 AM:

LOL

I love the Truman comparison!  :)

# Bert said on August 26, 2007 5:02 PM:

You know that what you are doing is wrong. So why does Microsoft play these ruthless games?

# Curious Joe said on August 27, 2007 7:54 PM:

Doug, just what is "Farance, Incorporated" entity? I cannot google up *anything* about it that is not related to voting "no" on OOXML standartization.

# carlos said on August 30, 2007 5:55 PM:

"Doug, just what is "Farance, Incorporated" entity? I cannot google up *anything* about it that is not related to voting "no" on OOXML standartization."

why don't you try the obvious?

http://farance.com/

By the way, Farance is a serious and ethic company with more than 25 years of background in standardization. So his comments about this process are worth reading:

http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=detail&response_id=115320

learn something about

# Doug Mahugh said on December 30, 2007 9:52 PM:

It's been quite a year for those who have been blogging about the Open XML file formats. Here's a look

# Doug Mahugh said on March 7, 2008 11:58 AM:

An article in Computerworld yesterday entitled "ISO officials, others dispute claims that Open XML meeting

# Noticias externas said on March 7, 2008 12:07 PM:

An article in Computerworld yesterday entitled "ISO officials, others dispute claims that Open XML

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