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Final US OOXML Voting Result - Yes with Comments

This is already everywhere, but I thought worth repeating for readers of my blog.

On the 24th the results of the United States vote for Open XML were made public. The INCITS Executive Board approved a “Yes with comments”  position in a 12-3-1 (yes, no, abstain) outcome.  

Here is a screen shot of the vote outcomes - the positions of each company are really not surprising. 

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It's good to see a number of key customers and vendors in support of the standard.  

This note from Forester is worth reviewing if you have not seen it before as it's pretty clear on why a few key vendors choices (specifically Sun, IBM & Microsoft) are prretty predictable.

I also scanned the comments, nothing new in anything I saw - they were what I would expect to see.

Published Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:42 PM by smcbreen
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 1:37 PM by Adam

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By chance have you read the following?  http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/OOXML-is-defective-by-design.html

Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:33 PM by smcbreen

# re: Final US OOXML Voting Result - Yes with Comments

Hi Adam,

Yes I have read that articale David Lane also asked this question on this bog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/smcbreen/archive/2007/08/24/people-implementing-ecma-office-open-xml.aspx#comments

I've attempted to address the concern there - my key point is the commitment from Ecma and ourselves to correct any errors - I'm not commenting on the factual correctness of the document you've highlighter rather that we are commited to doing the right thing.

Hope that helps.

Sean

Saturday, September 01, 2007 2:15 AM by Bruce

# re: Final US OOXML Voting Result - Yes with Comments

Congratulations, you are one step closer to making the ISO completely pointless.  Microsoft is opening the door.

*golfclap*

"I've attempted to address the concern there - my key point is the commitment from Ecma and ourselves to correct any errors"

Yeah, that is bullshit.  Everyone in the room knows you won't fix crap because it would require fixing some of the legacy cruft and thus would not be compatible with Office 2007.

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