This has even resulted in litigation against hard drive manufacturers, because some operating systems report the size using the larger binary interpretation.
Later, the IEC standard was harmonized into the common ISO/IEC 80000-13:2008 – Quantities and units – Part 13: Information science and technology.
[2] The binary prefixes have been adopted by the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) as the harmonization document HD 60027-2:2003-03.
[4] The IEC binary prefixes (kibi, mebi, ...) are gaining acceptance in open source software and in scientific literature.
Elsewhere adoption has been slow, with some operating systems, most notably Windows, continuing to use SI prefixes (kilo, mega, ...) for binary multiples.