[Ilugc] ISO GIves Go Ahead To OOXML

From: lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Kenneth Gonsalves)
Date: Mon Aug 18 10:53:51 2008

On 18-Aug-08, at 10:38 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:

Sad news it is. The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the
go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology ?
Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard after
appeals by four national standards bodies against the approval of
the document failed to garner sufficient support.

does this mean that odf is no longer a standard? or are there 2
standards?

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kg
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- [Ilugc] ISO GIves Go Ahead To OOXML
  - From: Swapnil Bhartiya

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