In the last issue’s editorial, I predicted that the confidential OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting would fail to achieve its objectives. I was both right and wrong: there was only time to discuss and, as needed, revise a small percentage of the c. 900 substantive comments registered last year — but as of this point in time, it appears that OOXML may have been adopted anyway. Whether or not OOXML has finally won, the credibility and integrity of the formal standard setting system certainly lost.