Tuesday, August 28th, 2007...5:56 am
Microsoft buys itself a Swedish Standard – Updated
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It looks like the Swedish Standards Committee was going to vote “no, with comments” on Microsoft’s OOXML proposal. Then, in the 3 days before the vote, 24 new companies paid the fees to join the committee. The result being that the standard was passed. Of those 24 companies, 18 of them were Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.
This is a huge blunder for Microsoft, which has been switching their position from ignoring standards to proposing them over the last few years in order to engender better PR.
links:
http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.118249
http://stupid.domain.name/node/385
Update – 9/1/07
Looks like the SIS board canceled the vote because of the irregularities and so Sweden won’t vote in the ISO.
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