More trouble for Office OpenXML
InternetNews | at | by Mike
A U.S. committee whose recommendation is viewed to be a bellwether as to whether Microsoft's Office OpenXML document formats are likely to be adopted as a major international standard, failed last week to garner enough votes to move the proposed standard along, according to a private blog post by one committee member.
The vote by Technical Committee V1 of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards came just two votes shy on Friday of the two-thirds majority required to recommend that OOXML be adopted by the International Organization for Standardization The V1 committee of the INCITS organization, which is accredited by the American National Standards Institute, is charged with formulating the U.S. response to ISO standards proposals for open document formats.