Anonymous

Washington, DC

Attorney

If the ISO rejected OOXML this March, Microsoft could then have gone about this the right way - by resubmitting the standard through a non-fast-track process and cooperating with others.

In fact, the rejection of OOXML the first time (in 2007) made the standard better because it forced MS to cooperate with others to a certain extent. The Ballot Resolution meeting in February did some good - but there was not enough time to fix the 6000 pages. A second rejection by the ISO (in March 2008) would have done the standard even more good (assuming MS wouldn't have taken its ball home to cry).

Instead, we are left with a broken and incomplete standard. This is bad for everyone.