Expect OpenXML win for Microsoft at ISO
It’s the nature of the system, admits Andy Updegrove, legal advisor to the Linux Foundation. The format of Microsoft Office will likely become an official International Standards Organization standard at the end of this month.
“Once a proposed standard enters into the wide end of the funnel, the process is dedicated towards flushing out problems and then resolving them, so that a final, acceptable standard comes out the small end of the process,” he wrote ZDNet today.
That’s what the International Standards Organization has been going through regarding Open XML, or Ecma 376 or DIS 29500 or (as I’ve called it here) OOXML.
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