OOXML passed (officially now), but it’s not over yet.

http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123 (ISO press release)

ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats, has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard.

But the challenges are probably on their way.

Microsoft’s director of corporate standards, Jason Matusow, wrote in a blog on Tuesday that challenges to the overall process will likely come. The source? IBM.

Now there’s a two-month period for the national bodies to lodge their complaints. Scroll to the bottom of The Australian’s article for the vote breakdown by country.

This entry was posted by Ruth Suehle on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 2:41 pm and is filed under Open Standards, OOXML. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.