Syringe.Net.Nz - OOXML Votes

Saturday, August 25, 2007

US yes with comments. Voting here. IBM, Oracle, Farance against. IEEE abstaining.

Brazil no with comments. News item on ZDNet. A friend who was at the meeting tells me that this was a decision passed/pushed down from government circles.

PoliTechLaw|Saturday, August 25, 2007 6:42:38 AM UTC|Comments [3]|

Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:40:30 AM UTC

Chris,

The links in this post are not working :(

BTW, when is NZ going to announce whether its with ODF or OpenXML ? Any info on that?

Chakkaradeep

Sunday, August 26, 2007 6:41:17 AM UTC

Hi Chakkaradeep,
please try these links instead (the ZDNet UK link above works OK for me):

USA
http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=vote&committee=INCITS&ballot_id=2341&_UserReference=96EBDF227BF339D246CE4E20

Germany
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2007/08/22/germany-votes-yes-with-comments.aspx

Standards New Zealand will cast their vote on August 30th and announce the vote publicly on August 31st.

Brett Roberts, Microsoft NZ

Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:20:04 AM UTC

grrr...NZ has casted No to openxml - http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=7322

:(

Chakkaradeep

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