Microsoft starts to lobby the NO countries with Philippines

Summary:

ZDNet reports that Microsoft and its puppet CompTIA are campaigning for OOXML in Philippines. The country voted No, and the members of the Technical Committee needs to be lobbyied, said Dave Walsh, Microsoft's senior standard programme manager.

Microsoft starts to lobby the NO countries with Philippines

zoobab 16 Nov 2007 16:15

ZDNet has published an article yesterday on "Microsoft launches OOXML drive in Philippines":

Representatives from both Microsoft and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), in a briefing last week, said they will hold various campaigns, as well as talks with government and private-sector groups, with the aim of disseminating information about Office Open XML (OOXML) across the country.

"More information" means lobbying for Dane Walsh, Microsoft lobbyist:

According to Dave Walsh, Microsoft's senior standard programme manager, the Philippines was one of the countries which voted "no" on the use of OOXML. "The country voted 'no' with clarifications. This means the panel voting on the standard still needs more information about OOXML," Walsh said at the briefing last week.

Time to send an alert to our signatories in Philippines.

Re: Microsoft starts to lobby the NO countries with Philippines

The Open Sourcerer 20 Nov 2007 16:38

Here's my nice analysis of this: [http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2007/11/15/ooxml-is-hotting-up-again-this-time-in-the-philippines/]

It's very interesting to note that they (M$) have not tried to court any of other Asian voters…

Al

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