The ISO rejected Microsoft's ooxml long ago. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136711-c,techindustrytrends/article.html http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39289089,00.htm http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Microsoft-Office-Open-XML-rejected-as-standard/0,130061733,339280162,00.htm http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070904-iso-votes-against-fast-tracking-microsofts-office-open-xml.html
eb Reinier Battenberg wrote thus on 1/14/08 5:05 PM:
For those of you who would like a world where you can choose which office application to use to create documents that everybody can read and write, here is your chance to do something:http://www.noooxml.org/petition(If you read through the list of arguments, you wonder why a petition is needed in the first place.)
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