OOXML Won't Get Fast-Track ISO Standardization

realdodgeman writes "The International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) recently held an internal poll to determine the position that the United States should take on Microsoft's request for Office Open XML (OOXML) approval. With eight votes in favor, seven against, and one abstention, the group was one vote short of the nine votes required for approving OOXLM ISO standardization. This will mean a huge slowdown to the standardization to the OOXML format. 'Given the controversial nature, relative complexity, and significant importance of the standard, the results of INCIT's vote is unsurprising. An INCITS technical committee also voted against fast-track OOXML approval last month prior to the executive board's vote. Further deliberation is clearly needed as well as further refinement of the format. It seems as though many of the organizations participating in the approval process are generally supportive of the standard itself, but are unwilling to voice unconditional support until their concerns are resolved. OOXML may be down, but it's certainly not out.'"

Comments

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[PenguSven]

In Soviet Russia, ISO standardization fast tracks YOU and I for one welcome our new OOXML over.. oh wait.

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[SnowZero]

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, tired old meme regurgitates formula on you!

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[kennygraham]

So it's really MooXML? Personally, that sounds like a much better name to me :)

blah blah bovine overlords blah blah

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[Planesdragon]

So OOXML name is a clear admission of hypocrisy: not a surprise to me anyway.

Hypocrisy? Huh?

OOXML is exactly what we've wanted from Microsoft for years. A document spec that can be read without spending hours attempting to reverse-engineer how Word stores files internally. They even made it a ZIP file of XML... exactly like OpenOffice.Org's original file format.

If anything, naming .docx et al "OOXML" is a tribute to where the idea came from in the first place.