NZ objects to Microsoft Open XML standard fast-track proposal
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| Standards New Zealand, our representative organisation in dealings
| with the ISO, objects on the grounds that Open Document has
| already been approved
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/82AF97DEBBAFD057CC2572990006C14C
Related:
Microsoft standards bid faces failure
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| Microsoft's bid to get its Open XML formats recognised as an
| international standard faces a delay for at least three months
| and could fail altogether, it emerged today.
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| The British Standards Institute, which represents the UK with
| the International Standards Organisation, has issued what is
| called a "contradiction" to Microsoft's specification.
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http://www.computeractive.co.uk/personal-computer-world/news/2174199/microsoft-standards-bid-faces
http://tinyurl.com/2yk773
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