“The International Organization for Standardization has voted against a proposal to fast-track Microsoft’s Office Open XML format as an international standard.”
Edit: Apparantly the Finnish standards body may have leaked the result. If this is so… what a delicious irony it is.
Actually, the irony is that it isn’t finished. This was the fast-track. The big, formal one will be in a couple of months.
If it was up to me, microsoft would never get their standard.
How can something proprietary be a descant standard, and also, we already have an international document standard, it’s called ODF and you just can’t bypass it.
Face it microsoft, within this century, I hope within less then 10 years, linux will be more mainstream then windows has ever been.
Many of the ‘conditional no’ ballots included a request to merge OOXML into the existing ODF format. Let’s hope this suggestion is taken seriously.
A unified format that does everything that end-users need is the only satisfactory outcome we can accept. Multiple standards are not a standard at all.
“Apparantly the Finnish standards body may have leaked the result. If this is so… what a delicious irony it is.”
Err… why? Because Finland is a neighbour of Sweden? I don’t get hte irony here
“Because Finland is a neighbour of Sweden?”
No, because Finland is the birthplace of Linux.