____/ Freeride on Thursday 19 July 2007 05:56 : \____
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39288082,00.htm
>
>>An open office document format developed by Microsoft has received a
>>major setback in achieving a certification which would make it more
>>widely accepted as a true technology standard.
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>>On Friday, Office Open XML (OOXML) failed to gain approval in a vote by a
>>sub-group of the International Committee for Information Technology
>>Standards (INCITS), a standards body influential with the US government.
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>>OOXML has strong support from Microsoft, and is a rival to the
>>OpenDocument Format (ODF) favoured by open-source vendors and companies
>>such as IBM. But while ODF has gained important acceptance from the
>>International Organization for Standardization (ISO), OOXML is still
>>struggling to be seen as a truly open.
It doesn't tell the full story. What about Microsoft gaming those panels?
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