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!
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This site has over 1,000 'wiki' pages, many thousands of documents, several thousands of videos, and about 50,000 blog posts or articles. We need to make them easier to find/navigate.
Even if one can see/find a link to "the study" (in the Bezos-controlled publication), most people won't look any further and just take everything at face value.
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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