Offfice Open XML becomes a standard
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft has won approval for its Offfice Open XML document format from international standards body ECMA International.
ECMA's General Assembly voted by 20-1 in favor of the standard at a meeting in Zurich on Thursday afternoon, and will now submit the format to the International Organization for Standardization for its approval. The vote against came from a representative of IBM
A standardized document format will make it easier for competing software companies to develop products that can interoperate with one another and to edit the same documents. Products meeting the standard could find favor with governments, or other organizations concerned about interoperability.