More ISO OOXML news ahead of today's deadline
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sun, 09/02/2007 - 08:28.
THERE'S MORE news about countries' ISO votes on Microsoft's proposed OOXML document formats ahead of today's deadline for votes to be submitted.
Norway's national standards body Norge Standard has decided to vote "No, with Comments" due to the many as yet unresolved technical issues with OOXML, but it politely characterised the decision as a "conditional yes" vote, presumably to indicate that it's not opposed to Microsoft's proposal in principal, but only wants OOXML to work properly if it's eventually approved.
An English translation of Norge Standard's statement has been volunteered to Groklaw, the central paragraph of which reads:
Also:
Technical Committee 182 decided on August 30th to accept Microsoft format Office Open XML as an ISO standard. Another committee already voted against OOXML last week, but the KT 182 decision is the final vote of Poland (most likely).
No need for third party translation
The comments are available - in English - directly from Standard Norge. (PDF)
NZ rejects Microsoft OOXML, Sweden confused
New Zealand last week voted to reject Microsoft OOXML as an international standard while the Swedish Standards Institute invalidated its own vote after discovering irregularities.
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