Groklaw: “ISO will put Open XML on fast track unchanged”
Groklaw covers the recent move to put MS OOXML onto the fast track process.
After the initial indignation (there were dozens of complaints about MSOOXML not being fit as an international standard), many comments seemed to arrive at the same conclusion: MSOOXML is being put on the fast track so that in five months’ time it can be voted down and be done with. The regular track of deliberations and addressing issues just would not have been worthwhile, with so many problems in the application, and Microsoft’s refusal to compromise in any of them.
Let’s hope this turns out to be true, and that MSOOXML as a “standard” can be quickly and cleanly dispatched.