So…Microsoft tried to buy the vote on the fast track approval of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500, aka the attempt at making OOXML (.docx) a standard.
And even with their warchest, they still got a No.
Vote closes on draft ISO/IEC DIS 29500 standard 2007-09-04 A ballot on whether to publish the draft standard ISO/IEC DIS [...]
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And the world said No to Microsoft
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