OOXML Incidents Index: From [T]hailand to [V]ietnam
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-26 09:32:45 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-26 10:59:58 UTC
Index/Navigation
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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Thailand (Phone: +66 2 202 34 00-2):
Trinidad and Tobago (Phone: +1 868 662 88 27):
Turkey (Phone: +90 312 416 62 64):
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United Arab Emirates (Phone: +971 2 671 11 10):
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 Africa
- BSI Gets Sued After Microsoft's OOXML Corruptions Worldwide
- Urgent Need for Transparency in Procurement, Standards-Setting Process
- ISO's and BSI's Trouble Has Just Gotten Greater
- It's Almost Official: ISO is Controlled by Microsoft, by Insiders
- Tim Bray Calls the ISO Process “Brutal and Corrupt”
- Alex Brown, the British Library and OOXML
- ISO 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 Unnoticed
- OOXML Irregularities in Germany (and Britain Again)
- Bill Gates Makes Phonecalls Again (Politics for Derailing ODF)
- Standards for Uncertainty and Moving Goalposts
- New Lock-ins Built Around Silverlight, OOXML, SharePoint and More
- The BSI Has Been Corrupted by Microsoft -- Another Chink in ISO's armor
- Microsoft: 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 Access
- Becta, Its Microsoft Affairs, and OpenDocument Format
- ISO's Reputation Collapses Under Heavy Weight of Microsoft Abuses
- OOXML Muscling Its Way Through German Politics
- Has 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 Walk
- OOXML: Deception, Lies, FUD, Apple & Germany Become Microsoft Tools
- Sun, 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):
Ukraine (Phone: +380 44 226 29 71):
Uruguay (Phone: +598 2 901 20 48):
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Venezuela (Phone: +58 212 575 41 11):
Vietnam (Phone: +84 4 791 16 33):
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.
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