Microsoft Success Defeated ISO
After Microsoft failures for their open standard document, Office Open XML ( OOXML ) finally gain support to became ISO standard.
Although the official announcements have not published, the success of Microsoft is spread in internet. If there no obstacle, ISO that have 100 country representation will announce this in near future. Opponents of the OOXML standard disagree about the support, and accused Microsoft of irregularities during the voting process (IPW, Access to Knowledge, 29 February 2008). Knowledge Ecology International released an early statement saying it was “disappointed” about the likely approval and that “Microsoft’s control over document formats has destroyed competition on the desktop.”
Regardless of OOXML’s ISO status, the format will inevitably become a de facto industry standard as a result of the market dominance of Microsoft’s office suite. Microsoft says that ISO approval will place the future of the format in the hands of the standards community, but critics point to Microsoft’s long history of outright hostility towards open standards and fear that others will have little say in how OOXML evolves.
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