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ISO and Microsoft OOXML

Although it was not entirely unprecedented, ISO facilitated Microsoft corruption. ISO has, in turn, helped Microsoft discredit standards in general.

2007

  • Eric Raymond Sees ISO Abuse and Tells Microsoft Where to Stick Its OSI Trojan Horse
  • Microsoft Continues to Cheat in the ISO
  • Buying Support and Buying ISO Standards in Order to Hijack the Industry
  • OOXML/ISO Watch: Microsoft May Have Broken Antitrust Laws
  • ISO Reform Demanded, OpenISO Formed by Norbert Bollow (Updated)
  • Microsoft Already Plans to ‘Extend’ Its ‘Standard’; ECMA and ISO Named and Shamed
  • The OOXML Translator is a Hoax (and so is the ISO)
  • More ISO Madness — Only Accepts Microsoft Word Files
  • The ISO is Replaced by Microsoft, Long Live ISO
  • More Cracks in ISO, Courtesy of Microsoft Shenanigans?
  • ISO and Office Open XML (OOXML): What REALLY Happened There?
  • Microsoft Still Not Interested in the ISO Standard, Unless It’s Theirs


    • 2008

  • Does Microsoft Want to Kill ISO More Than Its Wants to Win an ISO?
  • ISO Frozen. Too Much Corruption?
  • An Ode (Eulogy) to ISO
  • Venezuela Appeals ISO Decision on OOXML (Denmark Reportedly Also)
  • ISO Death Watch in the Press: Part Deux
  • Tim Bray Calls the ISO Process “Brutal and Corrupt”
  • ISO Maxes Up Damage Control, OOXML Storm Looming
  • ISO’s Alex Brown on OOXML Messiness; ISO Wants Us to Bugger Off
  • Expect Microsoft to be Harshly Slapped for Abuses of ISO
  • New ISO: Denial and Damage Control, as Standard
  • ISO Urged to Invalidate OOXML as Microsoft’s Role Gets Shown; More Smears of ODF Come from Microsoft
  • ISO and Microsoft: The Corruption Resumes
  • Microsoft Controls ECMA, ISO, JTC1, Everything
  • ISO Totally Loses Its Credibility, Microsoft Partly Blamed
  • ISO Fails Again. It’s a Hat Trick.
  • ISO: Everybody, Calm Down. It’s All Under Control. (It’s Not!)
  • It’s Almost Official: ISO is Controlled by Microsoft, by Insiders
  • Can ISO Be Still Saved from Microsoft?
  • The World Sighs as ISO Becomes Irrelevant
  • Microsoft’s Abuse of ISO Made a Lot of Sworn Enemies
  • Quick Mention: ISO Fails to Properly Standrdise Even Itself
  • ISO Feels OK With Corruption, Officially Approves OOXML (Updated)
  • OOXML Leaked: The Stuff ISO Doesn’t Want You to Have
  • Protest Against ISO and Microsoft OOXML Intensifies
  • Another Formal Complaint About ISO/Microsoft: South Africa’s Turn
  • BRM: (B)roken process (R)atifies (M)onopoly (ISO/IEC DIS 29500)
  • Technical Flaws in OOXML and Technical Flaws in ISO (When Subjected to Sheer Abuse)
  • Roger Frost (ISO) and Stephen McGibbon (Microsoft) Proudly Lied to the Public (Updated)
  • Quick Mention: The ISO ODF Smear
  • Microsoft Literally Pays ISO (Sponsors ISO Meeting)
  • No Lessons Learned by ISO?
  • It’s Official: ISO Committee Captured by Vendor Microsoft Corporation
  • Report Suggests ECMA and Microsoft Put Standards as a Whole at Risk
  • ISO Sweeps Abuses Under the Rug While Microsoft Extends Anti-GPL Scope
  • Watch Out, ISO. XPS Coming Down Your Throat in 3, 2, 1….
  • What Might Happen to ISO After Self Humiliation, Microsoft Abuse
  • Another Feather Falls off ISO’s Cap Due to Microsoft OOXML
  • ISO and Microsoft: Lesson in Teamwork?
  • ISO Bites Its Tongue
  • ISO’s Self Abuse: The Morning After
  • ISO: Fail?
  • ISO Fallout, ODF Uprise
  • The BSI Has Been Corrupted by Microsoft — Another Chink in ISO’s armor
  • OOXML Neglected by National Archives, Microsoft’s ISO Capturers Still Fight ODF
  • Shame on You ISO, Shame On You. Total Disgrace.
  • Clannish Grouping Makes Tribal Elections (ISO and OOXML)
  • South Africa Hosts ODF Conference, India Looks Beyond ISO
  • OOXML Believed to be on Path to a Loss at ISO (ITNews)
  • Is a Vote for OOXML (Office Open XML) as an ISO illegitimate?
  • Bryden and the Sheep


    • 2009

  • ODF: Microsoft Gets Its Way in Seattle, Washington
  • Microsoft Buys ECMA for XPS; Watch Out, ISO
  • How Microsoft/ISO Took More Control of ODF
  • ISO Should Withdraw OOXML After Microsoft and Alex Brown Lied About Patents
  • ISO Finds a Home at Microsoft, Hostility Towards ODF Made Subtle


    • 2010

  • ISO is Irrelevant and British Government Pushed to Support ODF


    • 2012

  • ISO Helps Patent Cartels, Monopolies; Mozilla Surrenders, Fedora Will Not


    • 2018

  • USPTO Craziness: Changing Rules to Punish PTAB Petitioners and Reward Microsoft for Corruption at ISO


    • 2019

  • USPTO Rewards Microsoft for Corruption at ISO by Teaching People Proprietary OOXML and Promoting Its Use


    • ISO and Sirius

    Experiences of ISO at Sirius Open Source:

  • Sirius ‘Open Source’ Misleading the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on Security
  • The ISO Delusion: How Sirius Picked Collaboration/Communication Tools That Harm Staff, Harm the Company, and Harm Its Clients
  • ISO Reality: The 'Security' Certifications Are Meaningless (Paid-for Papers)
  • The Inside(r) Story of ISO 'Certification' Mills
  • Meme: ISO Certification for Paying for Certificates on Time
  • Meme: ISO Selling 'Reputation' to Small Businesses (for a Large Fee)
  • The ISO Train Wreck at Sirius 'Open Source'
  • Sirius Lying About ISO to Justify Giving the Technical Staff Some Classic 'Bullshit Jobs' While Censoring/Covering Up Incompetence
  • The ISO Delusion: Sirius Open Wash Ltd. and Medical Data/Projects at Risk/Peril