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Title: France rejects Microsoft Office Open XML Post by: Tanya on September 04, 2007, 05:00:33 PM France rejects Microsoft Office Open XML
France has voted against adoption of Microsoft's document format Office Open XML as an international standard, while Australia has decided to abstain. Microsoft offered its OOXML specification to standards body ECMA last year, paving the way for the file format to be fast-tracked through the International Organization for Standardization's approvals process. If enough other national standards bodies have voted the same way as those of France, India and Brazil, and OOXML is not approved as an international standard, Microsoft could miss out on revenue from the lucrative government market. A number of governments, worried that the need for access to electronic archives in proprietary formats leaves them hostage to their software vendor, have mandated the use of document formats that comply with open international standards. Continue At Source Send via e-mail | Submit to Digg | Add to Live Favorites http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/binkdotnu/~3/152003853/france-rejects-microsoft-office-open-xml.aspx |