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Microsoft Office Specs Fail Standards Test

Started by Retired Tech , Sep 06 2007 09:10 AM

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Retired Tech

Posted 06 September 2007 - 09:10 AM

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Microsoft has failed in its first attempt to have its Office Open XML formats approved as an ISO standard after failing to win enough support from national voting bodies despite a recent upsurge in support.

ISO figures indicate that the company failed to gather either the two-thirds of Participating member votes or 75% of total member votes it required for OOXML to join the OpenDocument Format as an ISO-approved document format standard.

http://uk.news.yahoo...-78e70a2_1.html