Searching the Web for OOXML/OpenXML in Iceland brings up absolutely nothing of relevance. However, one video of interest has just shown up. Iit lacks translation though. In case someone wishes to know more, here is the video (with link, as John politely asked for).
The video is said to have been taken at the OOXML meeting in the headquarters of Icelandic Standards (IST), which is the national standards body of Iceland. It's worth mentioning that Brian Jones (of Microsoft) lived in Iceland for a couple of years.
Here is another new (and very short) video about the solution to multiple document standards.
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John Drinkwater
2007-09-03 08:59:32
Cheers Roy for the links (Youtube’s embeds are broken with Gnash atm!),
One think I noticed yesterday on Brian Jones’ blog, was this comment:
“I think that even at this stage we'll probably see that the majority of countries (maybe 60% or so?) will vote "yes"”
http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/08/31/we-re-getting-closer-to-iso-approval-of-open-xml.aspx
Since there is a large amount of closed/private NB decisions, how could he possible assume 60%?
Roy Schestowitz
2007-09-03 12:04:01
I'm about to post another group of links shortly. One of the articles confirms that Microsoft is working very closely with the NBs. It would not surprise me if they are "intimate" enough -- to put it one way -- to know the outcome before everybody else. It's a case of gaming-fixing. The whole fiasco!
If someone (or someones) calls you paranoid for taking about "beacon"-like functionality, there will be no lack of authoritative citations (e.g. Web links) they can be provided to prove them wrong
At least some people squeezed out some "free press" out of this charade [...] That the media kept boosting parodies as the alternative/s to the bigot is a topic we wrote about a great deal over the past 3 weeks
They say IBM never recovered from Gerstner, who instead of saving the companies (IBM and others he claims credit for) set up a collision course of rapid shrinkage
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John Drinkwater
2007-09-03 08:59:32
One think I noticed yesterday on Brian Jones’ blog, was this comment: “I think that even at this stage we'll probably see that the majority of countries (maybe 60% or so?) will vote "yes"” http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2007/08/31/we-re-getting-closer-to-iso-approval-of-open-xml.aspx Since there is a large amount of closed/private NB decisions, how could he possible assume 60%?
Roy Schestowitz
2007-09-03 12:04:01