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Posted in Africa, America, ECMA, Europe, Formats, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML at 4:32 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
A-C | OOXML Incidents Index: From Algeria to Czech RepublicD-G | OOXML Incidents Index: From [D]enmark to [G]reeceH-J | OOXML Incidents Index: From [H]ungary to [J]ordanK-N | OOXML Incidents Index: From [K]enya to [N]orwayO-S | OOXML Incidents Index: From [P]akistan to [S]yriaBackground information
In this last part among six parts, we present some past coverage that contains pointers, translations, and snippets. These can hopefully shed light on the high level of irregularities in Microsoft’s pursuit for ISO’s rubber stamp. See the notes at the bottom about making a complaint.
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OOXML Incidents Index: From A to COOXML Incidents Index: From [D]enmark to [G]reeceOOXML Incidents Index: From [H]ungary to [J]ordanOOXML Incidents Index: From [K]enya to [N]orwayOOXML Incidents Index: From [P]akistan to [S]yria
Thailand (Phone: +66 2 202 34 00-2):
Russell Ossendryver et al Take on Microsoft’s False Promise of an ‘Open’ XMLBright Future Ahead for OpenOffice.org and ODF (Updated)
Trinidad and Tobago (Phone: +1 868 662 88 27):
Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight [sic]OOXML Defeated Easily in India; Microsoft in Hot Water in New Zealand Over Smear CampaignQuick Mention: ISO Fails to Properly Standrdise Even ItselfFoes of OpenDocument Format Listed; The Symphony Plays in a New VideoYou Lose, You Lie
Turkey (Phone: +90 312 416 62 64):
Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight [sic]How Microsoft ‘Bought’ Nicolas Sarkozy, France, and Parts of EuropeOpenDocument News: ODF at Sun, Google, IBM, and Novell
United Arab Emirates (Phone: +971 2 671 11 10):
How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of Asia
United Kingdom (Phone: +44 208 996 90 00):
OOXML BRM Convenor: “It May Be Time to Start Again from Scratch”Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight [sic]Microsoft Literally Pays ISO (Sponsors ISO Meeting) (Corrected)Alex Brown Again Attacks the ‘Standard of the People’ (Updated)Updates on Microsoft OOXML in the UK and South AfricaBSI Gets Sued After Microsoft’s OOXML Corruptions WorldwideUrgent Need for Transparency in Procurement, Standards-Setting ProcessISO’s and BSI’s Trouble Has Just Gotten GreaterIt’s Almost Official: ISO is Controlled by Microsoft, by InsidersTim Bray Calls the ISO Process “Brutal and Corrupt”Alex Brown, the British Library and OOXMLISO Rubber Stamp for OOXML? Not So Fast (Track)British Standards Institute (BSI) Under Fire After Possible ‘Inside Job’OOXML Roundup; BSI’s Sellout Did Not Go UnnoticedOOXML Irregularities in Germany (and Britain Again)Bill Gates Makes Phonecalls Again (Politics for Derailing ODF)Standards for Uncertainty and Moving GoalpostsNew Lock-ins Built Around Silverlight, OOXML, SharePoint and MoreThe BSI Has Been Corrupted by Microsoft — Another Chink in ISO’s armorMicrosoft: Oops, We Did it Again (OOXML and Money)Microsoft Conceals Financial Pains Using Money Games (Updatedx2)Food for Thought: How Proprietary Silverlight and OOXML Stifle or Eliminate Open AccessBecta, Its Microsoft Affairs, and OpenDocument FormatISO’s Reputation Collapses Under Heavy Weight of Microsoft AbusesOOXML Muscling Its Way Through German PoliticsHas Microsoft Just ‘Pulled a Hungary’ on OOXML Voting in Poland? (Updated)OOXML Watch: Sweden’s OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?Patent FUD Has People Talking About Reform, But Talk is No WalkOOXML: Deception, Lies, FUD, Apple & Germany Become Microsoft ToolsSun, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Novell: Whose Side is IBM on?
United States (Phone: +1 212 642 49 00, but don’t hold your breath because Microsoft has too much influence inside the government):
=> too much influence inside the government
Sentimental Blackmail for OOXML, Thy Name is Bill GatesMicrosoft-influenced INCITS Strikes Again?Bill and Steve Couldn’t Buy the US Vote This Time AroundRob Weir and Bob Sutor Return to Discussing the OOXML FraudsOpenDocument Format vs. Microsoft Lobbyists (and Money)Manipulation, Astroturfing, and What Governments Can DoBob Sutor Talks About Microsoft’s OOXML Games and DeficienciesRebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called ‘OpenDocument Format Civil War’US Justice Department Criticised by American Antitrust Institute After Pro-Microsoft Foul PlayShuttleworth Foundation Denounces a Novell VP’s ”Superb Standard”Steve Ballmer Makes Phonecalls to Flip Those Votes in Favour of Monopoly (Updated: China Says “NO”)ODF/OOXML Watch: Bill Gates Lobbies Behind the Scenes Again, Jason Matusow Deceives (Updated)Playing a Standards War Using the Language of MoneyHas Microsoft OOXML Jumped Off the ISO Fast Track?Document Formats Watch — “For the Love of God, Think about the Children (and Consumers)”Using OSI Endorsement and Linux Deals to Promote Lock-insSome Things Never Change — Technical Sabotage at MicrosoftGPLv2 ‘Vulnerabilties’ and Massachusetts ‘Vulnerabilties’Massachusetts — Bullied, Battered, and DefeatedThe OOXML Translator is a Hoax (and so is the ISO)Interoperability is Not Open StandardsMassachusetts Lobbying Under the Micros[cope|oft]Microsoft Seeks Experts to Corrupt Wikipedia Information on Open XML
Ukraine (Phone: +380 44 226 29 71):
ISO Frozen. Too Much Corruption?
Uruguay (Phone: +598 2 901 20 48):
OOXML Believed to be on Path to a Loss at ISO (ITNews) (Updated)Quick Mention: Pieter Hintjens’s Digistan Identifies OOXML-GDP LinksMicrosoft on OOXML: “It’s a Simple Matter of [Microsoft's] Commercial Interests!“OOXML Watch: Latest Stories of Deception, Corruption, and Disapproval
Venezuela (Phone: +58 212 575 41 11):
OOXML Roundup; BSI’s Sellout Did Not Go UnnoticedQuick Mention: Pieter Hintjens’s Digistan Identifies OOXML-GDP LinksThe Second ”O” in OOXML Stands for ”Oligarchy”, Not ”Open”
Vietnam (Phone: +84 4 791 16 33):
How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of AsiaIt’s OpenDocument All the Way for Holland (and Other Office Suites News)Bright Future Ahead for OpenOffice.org and ODF (Updated)Dissecting Microsoft’s OOXML/ODF StrategyOOXML Watch: Sweden’s OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?OOXML: Security Flaw Found, Microsoft Lies About It Again, African Revolt Against It, and ISO in Great DangerLying One’s Way from Loss to VictoryHas Microsoft ‘Bought’ the Vote for OOXML in Vietnam?
Microsoft’s OOXML can still be knocked off the Fast Track. Do consider asking your national standards body to join South Africa's formal complaint. It should be simple for standards bodies to do. The listings above hopefully help in explaining just how filled with abuse the process has been. Thursday is the deadline for complaints, so hurry seems justified. █
=> South Africa's formal complaint | deadline
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