Comments

• Victor Soliz

  2008-03-25 14:21:18

  I am starting to wonder about the possibility MS might indeed lose the approval. Let's assume it fails, what happens next?
  
  Will MS implement ODF?, if so, how many time would they delay such implementation? Mos importantly, will MS implement it correctly?
  
  I guess they would also still insist on OOXML, and probably totally ignore ODF's ISO status and keep OOXML as the default, I guess more antitrust suits would work, but it is starting to look like MS doesn't care about paying fines to the EU anymore...

• Roy Schestowitz

  2008-03-25 14:46:44

  I am starting to wonder about the possibility MS might indeed lose the approval. Let’s assume it fails, what happens next?

  
  
  Not much. But it's also too early to make decent predications. See the comments. Other sites started to chalk up the situation while Andy is away on vacation (probably got nauseous just seeing it all).
  
  

  I guess more antitrust suits would work, but it is starting to look like MS doesn’t care about paying fines to the EU anymore…

  
  
  Au contraire, unless they lie blatantly. They explicitly expresses worry over this in CeBIT 2008 and also in their latest SEC filing.
  
  http://www.microsoft.com/msft/SEC/default.mspx
  
  They might soon enter debt as well. Don't fall for the illusion they want you to fall into.

• Andre

  2008-03-25 19:08:40

  The OOXML standard process won't fail but this is not important. One way or the other they will fail.
  
  So they get their crappy standard approved by ISO and wrecked the ISO system. Disapproval is just a matter of raison d'etat but it does not happen.
  
  No one except Microsoft loses when OOXML get disapproval. Even Microsoft partners should know that the party will be over after disapproval.