____/ Rick on Tuesday 01 April 2008 11:08 : \____
> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:13:12 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Rick on Tuesday 01 April 2008 02:16 : \____
>>
>>> On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:09:53 +0000, Matt wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL3019918720080331
>>>>
>>>>> ISO to announce Microsoft Open XML result Wednesday Mon Mar 31, 2008
>>>>> 1:14pm EDT
>>>>>
>>>>> GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Organization for Standardization
>>>>> (ISO) said it would reveal on Wednesday whether Microsoft (MSFT.O:
>>>>> Quote, Profile, Research) had won the support needed to have its
>>>>> document format made into a global industry standard.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Because ISO needs first to inform its worldwide membership of
>>>>> national standards bodies of these results, a press release on this
>>>>> subject will be issued on Wednesday, 2 April, 2008," ISO spokesman
>>>>> Roger Frost said in an e-mail message.
>>>
>>> Is there really any doubt Microsoft will win?
>>
>> Win /what/? Bad reputation? It has done this already, so why not go for
>> the jackpot.
>
> I have no doubt OXML will become an ISO standard. It is the way of the
> world.
But at what /cost/? The US too could claim that nuking Japan had made them
a 'winner', but it never made them popular with the east.
>> Experts in this opine that Microsoft may come to regret these crimes.
>> Other jokingly say that people should be jailed, which is probably true,
>> but Microsoft is above the law.
>
> ... my point, exactly.
>
> Maybe, just maybe, the world will publicly see Microsoft, and it's
> managers for what they are. I doubt it.
The least we can do is spread the word.
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