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IBM killed Open XML
SOFTWARE empire Microsoft claims that Biggish Blue single-handedly destroyed its chances of having its Office Open XML (OOXML) standard approved by the International Organisation for Standardisation.
According to ZDNet, Microsoft senior director of XML technology, Jean Paoli, has been muttering that those evil nasty people in IBM did his standard in.
He said that Microsoft would have had OOXML as an official standard if it had not been for those pesky people in IBM.
IBM voted against the approval of OOXML as an Ecma standard, but the Vole thinks that Biggish Blue was up to yet more skulduggery behind the scenes.
Nicos Tsilas, senior director interoperability and IP policy said that IBM had made OOXML adoption into a religious and highly political debate as part of a cunning plan to peddle IBM's consulting services which are based on Open Sauce software.
He claimed IBM wanted governments to have an open-source, exclusive purchasing policy to shut the Vole out. He muttered that it was all a new way to compete by using government intervention.
However, one cannot feel too sorry for Microsoft. After all during the Standard's voting process some meetings were stacked by Microsoft partners who had never attended a meeting in their lives. µ
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Yay! Go go IBM!! Respect!
Of course, it's all smoke and mirrors on their part open standards are nothing to do with open source. Microsoft could support ODF like everyone else and still compete.

Uh, except they'd have to compete on merit then, hence the, um, issues they are having.
Oh no, someone else is playing hardball in the standards arena? 

Microsoft, I can quite honestly say:

This is the rest of the world not caring about you.
Remember how Microsoft more or less single handedly killed OS/2.
It's only fair that IBM gets to play the same game.
Actually this is more damage to Microsoft's pride than anything. They can make Office do ODF, and there are quite a few things that Office does better than OpenOffice which don't depend at all on file format.
why should microsoft be allowed to more monopoly?

ODF for everyone, from the people 

Micro$oft is just EVIL

Finaly a company that ass raps micro$oft! :D
Hi - I'm the Microsoft employee quoted in this ZDNet article. If you want to find out more about Microsoft's OXML policy positions please go to http://www.microsoft.com/office/openxmlpolicy or http://www.openxmlcommunity.org/ 

Regards, 
Nicos Tsilas