Nice Standard You’ve Got There (Hate to See You Use It…)

“My, my, how’s anyone with a blog supposed to get his day job
done this week? Bob Sutor at IBM just sent me this link to his
writeup on Microsoft’s latest press release, titled (the press
release, that is), ‘Microsoft Votes for Choice.’ The lead paragraph
reads:

“Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has voted to support
the addition of OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.0 to the nonexclusive
American National Standards list. The vote took place as part of a
process managed by the American National Standards Institute
(ANSI).

“That’s a good thing, right? Well, yes, it is, as far as the
vote goes. But when was the last time you saw a vendor issue a
press release about one of the many standards votes it casts on an
ongoing basis…?”

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