Microsoft calls on UK public to raise the Office standard

why not create a another vote, calling for the XML Office format to _not_ be adopted as standard by the ISO?

Looks like MS is not so convinced of the merits of its own format when it is starting an online petition. Getting nervous?

Strikes me MS are very clever.

So many people I know would be inclined to go along because they are ignorant of what an international standard means. They just don't think enough to have an awareness of any reasons why making Microsoft the actual standard might not be (isn't) a good thing. Such people look at me like a harmless eccentric crank if I attempt to explain or encourage them to reason it for themselves by asking them questions in the hope they will form their own opinion and actually have one that has any basis.

The Fox urges chickens to petition farmer to remove the chicken yard fence.

I bet the public petition for the British Standard Office to oppose OOXML has many times more signatures. We'll never know though because MS doesn't publish the numbers. And if they did I bet half of them (at least!) aren't real people but MS employees under false names.

No Sander. They are not MS employees under false names. They are dead people. Remember?

> They are not MS employees under false names. They are dead people.

As part of Microsoft's affirmative action hiring practices, they are now officially "breathing impaired" individuals, and thus qualified to post on Microsoft's behalf.

Thanks jdixon. As chief newshound, I should have known about MS' new hiring policies.

/re-enrolls in newshound school.