New Zealand maintains negative vote on proposed IT Standard

Hot off the wires we have this.

‘Standards New Zealand has confirmed its negative vote for the adoption of the OOXML specification as an ISO/IEC international Standard’, says Debbie Chin, Chief Executive, Standards New Zealand.

I'll let you read the rest but Debbie Chin goes on to say ‘There have been significant improvements to the specification since it was first put forward... however there is still insufficient New Zealand stakeholder support for Standards New Zealand to vote for publication as an ISO/IEC international Standard.’

I think we all owe a huge round of thanks to the many people in New Zealand who committed huge amounts of personal time to help SNZ reach the correct conclusion. A truly excellent effort and one to be proud of.