As bad as it sound it currently looks like that the vote that took place at the SIS, Swedish Standards Institute, was a total joke due to the facts that 23 new companies applied to take part of today's voting and most of them in favour of Microsoft agenda.
One would think that SIS would not accept new companies to participate in the vote since they haven't been part of the earlier discussions and meetings. But according to SIS they didn't see any problem that new companies wanted to take part in this vote without prior notice. So what happened here is that Microsoft gather together a bunch of loyal partners that would vote yes to their standard without any questions.
According to this article, 23 companies joined without prior notice in
order to be able to vote, which would have clearly been a "no" vote
without the votes of these new companies. Most of these companies are
Microsoft partners.
One of these new companies was Google, which strongly opposes OOXML, and
has created the following position paper: Check Here
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