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A Majority of the world uses MB for Megabyte and Mb for Megabit.. Anyone who does not is a
uppercrusty snob who doesn't care for conventions and is ultimately trying to confuse people and be official.. Standardization organizations tend to suck because they suffer from ]. Take for instance the OMG standards organizations who failed to standardize CORBA interfaces due to an lack fo agreement among commercial developers, I was once told getting commercial competitors to agree on a standard is like herding cats. The two ways of standarizing terminology: intuition or use. People are not going to adopt terminology from a standards body which doesn't adopt intuition or use as a method of adopting terminology. Like if a standards body was to use "SuperChomp" instead of "MegaByte", there would have to be a good intuitive reason for someone to use that name instead of MegaByte..