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April 2008 - Posts

ISO takes full control - SC34 now moving forward on maintenance and evolution of Open XML

I'm heading home from Norway in the morning, but wanted to give a quick update on the progress made over the past few days. I was attending the SC34 meetings in Oslo and there was a good amount of focus on document format standards (SC34, as designated

Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war

I'm sure many folks have seen the news by now that Open XML has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard (IS 29500). Based on the numbers I've seen, looking at the P member countries there are now 24 who vote "yes", and only 8 vote "no". This puts the P member
 
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