It’s been leaked…
Voting Status for DIS29500ISO is furthermore an irrelevance in technology standardisation.
Here’s the full file with the votes for DIS29500
Update: Hello Slashdot, and thanks Bytemark for helping us cope with the traffic!
This isn’t an April fools, there is a PGP signed confirmation here. If you are desperate to see an April Fools article we did one of them too.We just didn’t expect to follow it so quickly with the real thing.
>(ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has concluded its formal process to evaluate Ecma International’s submission of the __Draft__ International Standard (DIS) 29500: Office Open XML (Open XML).
>While the _final vote has not yet been announced formally_, publicly available information appears to indicate the proposed Open XML standard received extremely broad support.
>86 percent of all voting national body members support ISO/IEC standardization