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Is It Still an Open Format if It's Owned by Microsoft?

Sep 04, 2007

Microsoft submitted its Open Office XML document format to the International Standards Organization to be considered as a standard that would help other companies and developers and make it easier for files to be shared across software types, says this news story from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. This past Sunday, though, Microsoft missed getting all the preliminary votes it needed to secure OOXML as a standard, but the company still has time to try to change some minds.

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