Published: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:05:11 +0000 
Open Malasia blog has a user friendly post with a map of the voting. See the tables and understand the voting criterias.
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OOXML: A global NO so far but still countingBy  Avi on  Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:05:11 +0000 | Tags:  lang:en short tech:ok | Categories: OpenDocument Format 2 comments to OOXML: A global NO so far but still countingLeave a Reply |
 Avi Alkalay is an Information Architect, Enterprise 2.0, Open Standards and Open Source do-it-all hacker at IBM Brazil. hCard/vCard
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Andy, I’ve been traveling across many countries to talk to their National Standardization Bodies and what I am finding is that these institutions are simply naive and don’t know how to run a standardization process.
Microsoft could cast a YES vote in many countries simply because these NBs don’t know how to act. Sad but true.
They will get it approved but it will be a real problem for both the ISO system and Microsoft. Yes, a bitter victory. I think all sides would be better off when Microsoft gets time to fix the specification, so it would be approved with real consensus and without dirty tricks and stuffing. I would forgive them everything they have done to international standardization. The standard project driven by p-members like Ivory Coast, Jamaica etc. – this is just insane. Don’t they care about the damage they do to the international standard system?