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ISO and Microsoft OOXML

Although it was not entirely unprecedented, ISO facilitated Microsoft corruption. ISO has, in turn, helped Microsoft discredit standards in general.

2007

Eric Raymond Sees ISO Abuse and Tells Microsoft Where to Stick Its OSI Trojan Horse

Microsoft Continues to Cheat in the ISO

Buying Support and Buying ISO Standards in Order to Hijack the Industry

OOXML/ISO Watch: Microsoft May Have Broken Antitrust Laws

ISO Reform Demanded, OpenISO Formed by Norbert Bollow (Updated)

Microsoft Already Plans to ‘Extend’ Its ‘Standard’; ECMA and ISO Named and Shamed

The OOXML Translator is a Hoax (and so is the ISO)

More ISO Madness — Only Accepts Microsoft Word Files

The ISO is Replaced by Microsoft, Long Live ISO

More Cracks in ISO, Courtesy of Microsoft Shenanigans?

ISO and Office Open XML (OOXML): What REALLY Happened There?

Microsoft Still Not Interested in the ISO Standard, Unless It’s Theirs

2008

Does Microsoft Want to Kill ISO More Than Its Wants to Win an ISO?

ISO Frozen. Too Much Corruption?

An Ode (Eulogy) to ISO

Venezuela Appeals ISO Decision on OOXML (Denmark Reportedly Also)

ISO Death Watch in the Press: Part Deux

Tim Bray Calls the ISO Process “Brutal and Corrupt”

ISO Maxes Up Damage Control, OOXML Storm Looming

ISO’s Alex Brown on OOXML Messiness; ISO Wants Us to Bugger Off

Expect Microsoft to be Harshly Slapped for Abuses of ISO

New ISO: Denial and Damage Control, as Standard

ISO Urged to Invalidate OOXML as Microsoft’s Role Gets Shown; More Smears of ODF Come from Microsoft

ISO and Microsoft: The Corruption Resumes

Microsoft Controls ECMA, ISO, JTC1, Everything

ISO Totally Loses Its Credibility, Microsoft Partly Blamed

ISO Fails Again. It’s a Hat Trick.

ISO: Everybody, Calm Down. It’s All Under Control. (It’s Not!)

It’s Almost Official: ISO is Controlled by Microsoft, by Insiders

Can ISO Be Still Saved from Microsoft?

The World Sighs as ISO Becomes Irrelevant

Microsoft’s Abuse of ISO Made a Lot of Sworn Enemies

Quick Mention: ISO Fails to Properly Standrdise Even Itself

ISO Feels OK With Corruption, Officially Approves OOXML (Updated)

OOXML Leaked: The Stuff ISO Doesn’t Want You to Have

Protest Against ISO and Microsoft OOXML Intensifies

Another Formal Complaint About ISO/Microsoft: South Africa’s Turn

BRM: (B)roken process (R)atifies (M)onopoly (ISO/IEC DIS 29500)

Technical Flaws in OOXML and Technical Flaws in ISO (When Subjected to Sheer Abuse)

Roger Frost (ISO) and Stephen McGibbon (Microsoft) Proudly Lied to the Public (Updated)

Quick Mention: The ISO ODF Smear

Microsoft Literally Pays ISO (Sponsors ISO Meeting)

No Lessons Learned by ISO?

It’s Official: ISO Committee Captured by Vendor Microsoft Corporation

Report Suggests ECMA and Microsoft Put Standards as a Whole at Risk

ISO Sweeps Abuses Under the Rug While Microsoft Extends Anti-GPL Scope

Watch Out, ISO. XPS Coming Down Your Throat in 3, 2, 1….

What Might Happen to ISO After Self Humiliation, Microsoft Abuse

Another Feather Falls off ISO’s Cap Due to Microsoft OOXML

ISO and Microsoft: Lesson in Teamwork?

ISO Bites Its Tongue

ISO’s Self Abuse: The Morning After

ISO: Fail?

ISO Fallout, ODF Uprise

The BSI Has Been Corrupted by Microsoft — Another Chink in ISO’s armor

OOXML Neglected by National Archives, Microsoft’s ISO Capturers Still Fight ODF

Shame on You ISO, Shame On You. Total Disgrace.

Clannish Grouping Makes Tribal Elections (ISO and OOXML)

South Africa Hosts ODF Conference, India Looks Beyond ISO

OOXML Believed to be on Path to a Loss at ISO (ITNews)

Is a Vote for OOXML (Office Open XML) as an ISO illegitimate?

Bryden and the Sheep

2009

ODF: Microsoft Gets Its Way in Seattle, Washington

Microsoft Buys ECMA for XPS; Watch Out, ISO

How Microsoft/ISO Took More Control of ODF

ISO Should Withdraw OOXML After Microsoft and Alex Brown Lied About Patents

ISO Finds a Home at Microsoft, Hostility Towards ODF Made Subtle

2010

ISO is Irrelevant and British Government Pushed to Support ODF

2012

ISO Helps Patent Cartels, Monopolies; Mozilla Surrenders, Fedora Will Not

2018

USPTO Craziness: Changing Rules to Punish PTAB Petitioners and Reward Microsoft for Corruption at ISO

2019

USPTO Rewards Microsoft for Corruption at ISO by Teaching People Proprietary OOXML and Promoting Its Use

ISO and Sirius

Experiences of ISO at Sirius Open Source:

Sirius Open Source

Sirius ‘Open Source’ Misleading the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on Security

The ISO Delusion: How Sirius Picked Collaboration/Communication Tools That Harm Staff, Harm the Company, and Harm Its Clients

ISO Reality: The 'Security' Certifications Are Meaningless (Paid-for Papers)

The Inside(r) Story of ISO 'Certification' Mills

Meme: ISO Certification for Paying for Certificates on Time

Meme: ISO Selling 'Reputation' to Small Businesses (for a Large Fee)

The ISO Train Wreck at Sirius 'Open Source'

Sirius Lying About ISO to Justify Giving the Technical Staff Some Classic 'Bullshit Jobs' While Censoring/Covering Up Incompetence

The ISO Delusion: Sirius Open Wash Ltd. and Medical Data/Projects at Risk/Peril

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