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United States Votes to Approve Open XML

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The United States national body has voted to approve DIS 29500 with 11 votes "yes," 4 votes "no," 1 "abstain," and 1 "not yet". The 2/3 super-majority requirement was met. 

INCITES VOTE March 2008

The next step for them is a resolution meeting later this month.

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  • Anonymous
    March 14, 2008
    % of Yes Votes needed to pass = 66.66%
  • of Yes Votes obtained ( including Microsoft ) = %68.75
  • of Yes Votes obtained ( excluding Microsoft ) = %62.50 Detail: NO + NOT YET: 03/13/2008 00:00:00 Adobe Systems   [1] 03/12/2008 00:00:00 Farance, Incorporated   [2] 03/13/2008 00:00:00 IBM Corp   [3] 03/13/2008 00:00:00 Oracle           [4] 03/07/2008 00:00:00 Intel ABSTAIN 03/13/2008 00:00:00 IEEE YES: --------------agencies block------------ 03/12/2008 00:00:00 Department of Homeland Security 03/13/2008 00:00:00 NIST 03/13/2008 00:00:00 US Department of Defense 03/10/2008 00:00:00 GS1 US

03/09/2008 00:00:00 Microsoft 03/10/2008 00:00:00 Sony Electronics 03/12/2008 00:00:00 Hewlett Packard Co 03/12/2008 00:00:00 Apple Inc 03/09/2008 00:00:00 Lexmark International 03/10/2008 00:00:00 Electronic Industries Alliance 03/07/2008 00:00:00 EMC Comments [1] http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=detail&response_id=118959 [2] http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=detail&response_id=118948 [3] http://www.incits.org/ref-docs/IBM-Comments_INCITS2558.pdf [4] http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=detail&response_id=118949

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2008
    @ orlando: Dropping Microsoft still makes 2/3 majority - if you drop Microsoft from the numerator, drop it from the denominator as well! QED