Although Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format became an ISO standard two years ago, the company still hasn't built any software that truly complies with the standard.

In the long run, a more rigorous inspection of OOXML is advantageous, because it could potentially bring improvements to the format that wouldn't have happened otherwise.

The votes have been tallied but it's still not 100 percent certain that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document-format is going to become an ISO standard.

Still, even by standards voting, the OOXML vote has been particularly contentious, with both sides slinging mud for the better part of two years over first the Ecma, and then the ISO processes.

OOXML is used in Microsoft Office 2007 for sharing Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file information. The rival standard, Open Document Format (ODF), is currently used in Sun Microsystems' OpenOffice.org ...

Big news for Microsoft as they find themselves the proud parents of an ISO 29500 certified OOXML specification -- almost. The ISO -- International Organization for Standardization's approval of ...

The official standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format could be delayed after a formal objection letter was lodged. The letter claimed that OOXML's approval process ...

While Microsoft lost round one in its campaign to gain ISO approval of its OOXML [Office Open XML]file format, it is best to remember this is still early in the game, especially when it comes to ...

Arguments about Microsoft’s OOXML format date back to my days when I read Slashdot for fun. Yeah, those days are long gone. Anyway, the International Organization for Standardization rejected ...

More specific questions about the manner in which the decision to approve OOXML was taken have been raised in a number of countries. For example, as I noted on my other blog, UKUUG, the UK’s ...

Under ISO rules, OOXML needs a double majority of the national standards bodies voting in order to become an international standard. It needs the approval of at least two-thirds of voting “P ...