Opening a particular Word 2007 document in Word 2008 can yield this error:

Seriously? Can’t Microsoft get their own implementations to cooperate better? And this has just been approved as an ISO standard?

I own the domain name standards-schmandards.com which I use for my accessibility blogging. Recent events have made me wonder if I shouldn’t use it to cover recent events regarding IE8 instead. Or, as Mark Pilgrim elegantly writes:
Said the monk:
If you give me non-standard markup, I will render it according to standards.
If you give me standard […]

Sweden is represented in the ISO through the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS). This means that our country has one of the 100 or so votes.

The member countries have had six months to consider if the Office Open XML (OOXML) format should become an ISO standard. In Sweden, SIS arranged a working group that have looked through the material. The working group were about to vote No, when a bunch of new members appeared at the final meeting.