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ISO Rejects Microsoft's OOXML
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- Wed 5 Sep 2007 at 20:09
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- Blog Entry
The International Organisation for Standardisation has rejected Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard. The Open Document Format (used in OpenOffice.org) is already an international standard. Late last week, the Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) nullified its vote for the Microsoft document standard. Earlier, Microsoft had been accused of offering benefits to partner companies to vote in support of OOXML. However, the SIS denies any connection between the accusations and the nullification. A se…
