The International Organization for Standardization has voted against a
proposal to fast-track Microsoft's Office Open XML format as an
international standard. Here's how the vote went: all 41 of the of the
countries that had worked on the proposal participated in the vote.
There were 17 "yes" votes, 15 "no" votes, and 9 abstentions. Without
counting the abstentions, that works out to 53.12 percent approval, far
short of the two-thirds majority needed. Of the 87 national standards
bodies voting, 18 voted against OOXML, leaving OOXML just shy of the 75
percent threshold for that vote.

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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070904053108577

" Finally, recall that I have consistently predicted that the vast
majority of the O members that upgraded to P membership would vote in
favor of approval, presumably inspired to do so at the urging of
Microsoft. That expectation has been confirmed, although the motivation
must continue to be inferred from the results, which are as follows: of
the 11 upgrades, 9 voted to approve, or approve with comments, and only
one voted against approval (Ecuador; Trinidad and Tobago abstained)."

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