International Standards Group comes to a halt
During Microsoft’s battle to make their new MS Office format an international standard, a large number of nations that had never been part of the voting body had mysteriously joined up just before the vote. Even more mysteriously, they all voted in Microsoft’s favor. This was seen as an obvious manipulation on Microsoft’s part, with likely payoffs and other hanky panky involved.
Since that vote (which Microsoft still lost, by the way) the ISO/IEC committee has ground to a halt because all of their votes require at least 50% participation from member bodies and none of those nations has bothered to come back since the vote on Microsoft’s format.
This certainly lends credence to the suspicions that it was all foul play on Microsoft (and those nation’s) part. A very, very sad state of affairs. I have long felt that Microsoft is an unethical, monomaniacal company, but this really takes the cake!
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