05.26.08
OOXML Incidents Index: From [T]hailand to [V]ietnam
Index/Navigation
- A-C | OOXML Incidents Index: From Algeria to Czech Republic
- D-G | OOXML Incidents Index: From [D]enmark to [G]reece
- H-J | OOXML Incidents Index: From [H]ungary to [J]ordan
- K-N | OOXML Incidents Index: From [K]enya to [N]orway
- O-S | OOXML Incidents Index: From [P]akistan to [S]yria
- Background information
In this last part among six parts, we present some past coverage that contains pointers, translations, and snippets. These can hopefully shed light on the high level of irregularities in Microsoft’s pursuit for ISO’s rubber stamp. See the notes at the bottom about making a complaint.
Previous:
- OOXML Incidents Index: From A to C
- OOXML Incidents Index: From [D]enmark to [G]reece
- OOXML Incidents Index: From [H]ungary to [J]ordan
- OOXML Incidents Index: From [K]enya to [N]orway
- OOXML Incidents Index: From [P]akistan to [S]yria
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Thailand (Phone: +66 2 202 34 00-2):
- Russell Ossendryver et al Take on Microsoft's False Promise of an 'Open' XML
- Bright Future Ahead for OpenOffice.org and ODF (Updated)
Trinidad and Tobago (Phone: +1 868 662 88 27):
- Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight [sic]
- OOXML Defeated Easily in India; Microsoft in Hot Water in New Zealand Over Smear Campaign
- Quick Mention: ISO Fails to Properly Standrdise Even Itself
- Foes of OpenDocument Format Listed; The Symphony Plays in a New Video
- You Lose, You Lie
Turkey (Phone: +90 312 416 62 64):
- Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight [sic]
- How Microsoft 'Bought' Nicolas Sarkozy, France, and Parts of Europe
- OpenDocument News: ODF at Sun, Google, IBM, and Novell
U
United Arab Emirates (Phone: +971 2 671 11 10):
United Kingdom (Phone: +44 208 996 90 00):
- OOXML BRM Convenor: “It May Be Time to Start Again from Scratch”
- Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight [sic]
- Microsoft Literally Pays ISO (Sponsors ISO Meeting) (Corrected)
- Alex Brown Again Attacks the 'Standard of the People' (Updated)
- Updates on Microsoft OOXML in the UK and South Africa
- BSI Gets Sued After Microsoft's OOXML Corruptions Worldwide
- Urgent Need for Transparency in Procurement, Standards-Setting Process
- ISO's and BSI's Trouble Has Just Gotten Greater
- It's Almost Official: ISO is Controlled by Microsoft, by Insiders
- Tim Bray Calls the ISO Process “Brutal and Corrupt”
- Alex Brown, the British Library and OOXML
- ISO Rubber Stamp for OOXML? Not So Fast (Track)
- British Standards Institute (BSI) Under Fire After Possible 'Inside Job'
- OOXML Roundup; BSI's Sellout Did Not Go Unnoticed
- OOXML Irregularities in Germany (and Britain Again)
- Bill Gates Makes Phonecalls Again (Politics for Derailing ODF)
- Standards for Uncertainty and Moving Goalposts
- New Lock-ins Built Around Silverlight, OOXML, SharePoint and More
- The BSI Has Been Corrupted by Microsoft -- Another Chink in ISO's armor
- Microsoft: Oops, We Did it Again (OOXML and Money)
- Microsoft Conceals Financial Pains Using Money Games (Updatedx2)
- Food for Thought: How Proprietary Silverlight and OOXML Stifle or Eliminate Open Access
- Becta, Its Microsoft Affairs, and OpenDocument Format
- ISO's Reputation Collapses Under Heavy Weight of Microsoft Abuses
- OOXML Muscling Its Way Through German Politics
- Has Microsoft Just 'Pulled a Hungary' on OOXML Voting in Poland? (Updated)
- OOXML Watch: Sweden's OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?
- Patent FUD Has People Talking About Reform, But Talk is No Walk
- OOXML: Deception, Lies, FUD, Apple & Germany Become Microsoft Tools
- Sun, Red Hat, Microsoft, and Novell: Whose Side is IBM on?
United States (Phone: +1 212 642 49 00, but don’t hold your breath because Microsoft has too much influence inside the government):
- Sentimental Blackmail for OOXML, Thy Name is Bill Gates
- Microsoft-influenced INCITS Strikes Again?
- Bill and Steve Couldn't Buy the US Vote This Time Around
- Rob Weir and Bob Sutor Return to Discussing the OOXML Frauds
- OpenDocument Format vs. Microsoft Lobbyists (and Money)
- Manipulation, Astroturfing, and What Governments Can Do
- Bob Sutor Talks About Microsoft's OOXML Games and Deficiencies
- Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called 'OpenDocument Format Civil War'
- US Justice Department Criticised by American Antitrust Institute After Pro-Microsoft Foul Play
- Shuttleworth Foundation Denounces a Novell VP's ”Superb Standard”
- Steve Ballmer Makes Phonecalls to Flip Those Votes in Favour of Monopoly (Updated: China Says “NO”)
- ODF/OOXML Watch: Bill Gates Lobbies Behind the Scenes Again, Jason Matusow Deceives (Updated)
- Playing a Standards War Using the Language of Money
- Has Microsoft OOXML Jumped Off the ISO Fast Track?
- Document Formats Watch -- “For the Love of God, Think about the Children (and Consumers)”
- Using OSI Endorsement and Linux Deals to Promote Lock-ins
- Some Things Never Change -- Technical Sabotage at Microsoft
- GPLv2 'Vulnerabilties' and Massachusetts 'Vulnerabilties'
- Massachusetts -- Bullied, Battered, and Defeated
- The OOXML Translator is a Hoax (and so is the ISO)
- Interoperability is Not Open Standards
- Massachusetts Lobbying Under the Micros[cope|oft]
- Microsoft Seeks Experts to Corrupt Wikipedia Information on Open XML
Ukraine (Phone: +380 44 226 29 71):
Uruguay (Phone: +598 2 901 20 48):
- OOXML Believed to be on Path to a Loss at ISO (ITNews) (Updated)
- Quick Mention: Pieter Hintjens's Digistan Identifies OOXML-GDP Links
- Microsoft on OOXML: “It's a Simple Matter of [Microsoft's] Commercial Interests!“
- OOXML Watch: Latest Stories of Deception, Corruption, and Disapproval
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Venezuela (Phone: +58 212 575 41 11):
- OOXML Roundup; BSI's Sellout Did Not Go Unnoticed
- Quick Mention: Pieter Hintjens's Digistan Identifies OOXML-GDP Links
- The Second ”O” in OOXML Stands for ”Oligarchy”, Not ”Open”
Vietnam (Phone: +84 4 791 16 33):
- How Microsoft Operates in China and Parts of Asia
- It's OpenDocument All the Way for Holland (and Other Office Suites News)
- Bright Future Ahead for OpenOffice.org and ODF (Updated)
- Dissecting Microsoft's OOXML/ODF Strategy
- OOXML Watch: Sweden's OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?
- OOXML: Security Flaw Found, Microsoft Lies About It Again, African Revolt Against It, and ISO in Great Danger
- Lying One's Way from Loss to Victory
- Has Microsoft 'Bought' the Vote for OOXML in Vietnam?
Microsoft’s OOXML can still be knocked off the Fast Track. Do consider asking your national standards body to join South Africa’s formal complaint. It should be simple for standards bodies to do. The listings above hopefully help in explaining just how filled with abuse the process has been. Thursday is the deadline for complaints, so hurry seems justified. █
Highlight: Novell was the first to acknowledge that Microsoft FUD tactics had substance. Novell then used anti-Linux FUD to market itself. 
Highlight: Xandros let Microsoft make patent claims and brag about (paid-for) OOXML support. 
Highlight: Linspire's CEO not only fell into Microsoft arms, but he also assisted the company's attack on GNU/Linux. 
Highlight: Microsoft craves pseudo (proprietary) standards and gets its way using proxies and influence which it buys. 
Highlight: The invasion into the open source world is intended to leave Linux companies neglected, due to financial incentives from Microsoft. 
Analysis: Xen, an open source hypervisor, possibly fell victim to Microsoft's aggressive (and stealthy) acquisition-by-proxy strategy.