Standard vs. Fact-It is not a purely technology issue

Implications: Microsoft’s bid to extend its dominance in digital documents to the new field of open-format documents was unexpectedly rebuffed today when a global technical panel refused to designate its Office Open XML as an international standard. The underlying code of an open document format is public, allowing developers to improve upon it and create new products that use it without having to pay royalties.

Analysis: Standard Committ was and will never be a purely technology panel due to different interests behind. It is a mini version of  WTO Doha Negotiation

Possibilities:

1. Microsoft optimize lobby tactics and win sufficient votes to make its proposal as formal standard.

2. Microsoft revised proposal and resubmit to win sufficent votes.

3. Microsoft give up the effort to make it as standard, but move ahead to implement and make it a industrial fact

Let us see what will happend next...