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2007

My own favorites were Cuba voting "yes" to the fast-tracking of OOXML, even though Microsoft is prohibited by the US Government from selling any software on the island that might even be able to read and write the new format, and Azerbaijan's "yes" vote, even though OOXML as defined isn't able to express a Web URL address in Azeri, their official language.

Jeremy Allison

# 15th September 2007, 10:40 am / azerbaijan, cuba, iso, jeremy-allison, microsoft, odf, ooxml, standards

Emerging consensus in favour of a unified document format standard? A call to arms from Mark Shuttleworth—help convince ISO to adopt ODF as a single unified document format standard.

# 14th August 2007, 12:14 pm / iso, mark-shuttleworth, odf, ooxml, standards