Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Employee incentives for OOXML support

Microsoft admitted that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary <A HREF="http://www.cio.com/article/134350/Microsoft_Employee_Offered_Incentives_for_OOXML_Support">offered monetary compensation</A> to partners for voting in favor of the Office Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.

Microsoft said the offer, when discovered, was quickly retracted and that its Sweden managers voluntarily notified the SIS, the national standards body.

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