OneAndOneIs2

Despite the absurd lengths they went to in order to corrupt and buy ISO certification for their horrible new XML formats, Microsoft has failed to get OOXML ISO-approved.

What does this mean? It means that their closed-but-supposedly-open format, with its ludicrous tags such as "useWord97LineBreakRules" written up in a four-thousand page description, has failed to convince the world that it is what they say it is. Unlike a proper standard, such as ODF, which was, by the way, ISO-approved without ANY votes to the contrary. And that's without a convicted monopolist throwing money around like water to grease it through, of course...

Since MS's entire anti-ODF strategy for the last few months has revolved around trying to convince everybody that OOXML is just as good and thus ODF should be ignored, it'll be interesting to see what their next move is.

Especially since all they've really accomplished is giving lots of free publicity to ODF whilst showing that their own alternative is so bad it can't even BUY certification.