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Microsoft loses bid to make Office an official standard
An international standards body rejects the Office file format as an "open" standard that can be used by governments around the world.
By Farhad Manjoo [2007-09-04]

  • It is either one thing or it is not

    Any standard adopted by ISO is by definition an open standard. It might not be such a bad thing to piggyback on Redmond's investment if the results are truly open. So where OOXML becomes an ISO standard then the standard is published and all the other tools like OpenOffice can adopt it too. Rather that in some ways than trying to reverse engineer Redmond's formats for the sake of compatibility. IT still wouldn't stop Redmond from adopting their own extensions to OOXML just the way they extended RTF into their own DOC standard.

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    Tuesday, September 4, 2007 12:15 PM
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