MS Office formats defeated in ISO "fast track" vote
InternetNews | at | by Mike
It's official. Microsoft's Office Open XML came close to receiving the votes it needed in the International Organization for Standardization to become a bona fide standard ? but no cigar. At least not yet.
Sunday, September 2, was the cutoff date for tallying the votes by all of the various ISO countries as to whether OOXML is to become a co-standard with the OpenDocument Format or ODF, which already received ISO recognition.
However, OOXML ? also known as Ecma 376 for its acceptance as a standard by European standards group Ecma International last December ? did not achieve the final tallies needed for ISO ratification.