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Following appeals from 4 countries, including India the
OOXML will not become an ISO Standard for some time now. The original
press release to that effect from ISO Website.

Economic
Times India reports that - Following appeals by four countries,
including India, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
has put on hold its earlier decision approving Microsoft’s Open Office
OXML (OOXML) file format as an international standard. OOXML is a format
for word-processing, presentations and spreadsheets. The other countries
that appealed against the ISO decision are Brazil, South Africa and
Venezuela. In April, OOXML was approved as an ISO/International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) International Standard, having received
the mandated over two-third votes of participating members. “The fact that
these countries have appealed against the OOXML after ISO’s approval in
April clearly shows the opposition to it. India has repeatedly voted
against the proprietary format. However, the country was not even allowed
to present all its comments against OOXML at the ballot resolution meeting
(BRM) at Geneva last year."

"All this has put a question mark on the credibility of ISO,” said a member of
the Bureau of Indian Standards committee, which was responsible for
examining the standard and deciding India’s position at ISO.

Some
other press on the same…

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