The OOXML saga continues! "Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard." There has been widespread accusations of misconduct over this vote. Ugly stuff. See also India also says no to Open Office XML, Brazil votes down Open Office XML, The Blogosphere rages over OOXML
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