Microsoft Office Open XML Fails to Win ISO Vote

Author: oreillynet.com | Published: 5th Sep 2007 | Visited: 47 times | Add Comment
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In the first few days of September, just as kids were beginning to head back to school, something rather remarkable happened: Microsoft lost its hegemony. In a vote by the various members of the ISO standards committee, managing only to...

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