Microsoft Revokes an OOXML Promise

640 Comments Are Enough for Anyone writes: "Microsoft is going back on one of their promises concerning OOXML. While they originally promised, and got some to vote for OOXML, based on the premise that the ISO would take control of the standard if it were approved, Microsoft is now reversing that position and keeping near-full control over OOXML with the EMCA. This is significant because the EMCA is the group that originally rubber-stamped OOXML, and it seems unlikely that they will correct the problems when they were the ones who hid the 662 comments in individual PDFs on a password-protected website earlier this week, and the ECMA group working on OOXML is Microsoft controlled. In Microsoft's new plan, the ISO would only be allowed to publish lists of errata and would be unable to make OOXML compatible with existing ISO standards, while the EMCA would be the one to control any new versions of the standard."

A farce of monumental proportions

[The Open Sourcerer]

Once of the biggest and most scandalous aspects of this whole sorry saga, is that Microshaft have themselves have stated that they "may or may not" actually implement the ISO standard that might come out of this process. They (M$) should be taken apart and sold for scrap - The lot of them.