Document format battle takes shape ahead of meeting
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft faces a tough battle starting Monday at a meeting in Geneva that will influence how widely the company's latest document format will be used in the future.
Representatives of national standards bodies worldwide will attend the ballot resolution meeting held by the International Organization for Standardization. They'll be focused on revising the specifications for Microsoft's Office Open XML , which the company hopes will become an ISO standard.
Although OOXML has already been approved by an industry standards body, Ecma International, the ISO designation is key, since governments look to the ISO when choosing technical standards.