quite enthused
This September Microsoft's ISO fast-track rubber stamp defeat was just another strategic step towards Endsieg1 of the Office Open XML format. Craig Mundie who will succeed Bill Gates next year made this clear ( APCMag interview):
We were actually quite enthused with the number of countries even at this stage in the balloting process who voted to approve the standardisation at the current level. While there were a number of countries who either abstained or voted procedurally 'no with comments.'
We view it as a relatively positive outcome. We certainly would have preferred that it had gotten ratified at this point, but we are not at all deterred from thinking that people will ultimately endorse ISO standardisation.
Now, this site Noooxml.org serves all those who endorse ISO standardization and defends ISO standardisation against a hostile takeover from the vendor. That is why the implication that 'support of a broken OOXML specification' and 'ISO standardisation' are virtually the same is just another cheap semantic twist.
FUD against a superb standard named OOXML?
Most people would expect that bugs of the the format get fixed now. But Craig aims for a 'minimum fix' as expected by some industry analysts.
We are fairly confident that having looked at the comments, that certainly most of them will be readily resolved and that a lot of the countries who voted 'no pending comment' are likely to switch to a yes. We literally only need to get a handful of those to convert in order to get ratification.
Oh,- and Craig doesn't like the new movement and does not like the review by those standard bodies where work was not totally obstructed:
There are a lot of people who have raised a great many issues which we don't think have a lot of practical merit, but serve the purpose of creating some anxiety during this process. Many of the comments that were submitted had common threads and were put together by people who oppose this activity.
It seems to me, filing OOXML bug reports is still perceived as hostile action against a brave company that wants to benefit its users by fast-tracking a premature proprietary standard proposal that follows virtually the same objectives than the existing ISO standard 26300 and that promotes the participation of underprivileged standard bodies from the South on a grand scale. Watch Craig Mundie smile here. The interview covers also many other visions of Microsoft's Mundie:
So despite the power of the machines that people have on their desk today, we really still think that this whole evolution is in its infancy and over that longer time horizon, we are likely to see some fairly dramatic changes.