OOXML vote was fair - Microsoft

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Apr 8, 2008 9:08 AM EDT
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Software giant Microsoft has said in an interview that allegations that it had improperly influenced the vote on OOXML as an ISO standard were unfounded and arose mostly from individuals and companies unhappy with the vote’s result. “People who didn’t like the outcome are attacking the outcome,” said Tom Robertson, Microsoft’s general manager for interoperability and standards, in an interview Friday. The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) last week anounced that its members had voted in favour of approving OOXML as a new document format standard.

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as fair as the day is long! yep, boy howdy, yessireebob! tuxchick 4 1,197 Apr 8, 2008 12:34 PM

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