ISO and IEC have give the go ahead for OOXML to be published as a standard, refered to as ISO/IEC DIS 29500. There were some appeals against OOXML, however they have been rejected by the standards bodies. Andy Updegrove has the voting results and their intepretation. [Continue]

That is what we can conclude from Stuart McKee’s statement. It sure sounds nice! Unfortunately, it does hardly anything for the divide created because of ODF and OOXML. [Continue]

MS Office 2007 will have native support for ODF, meaning much more and beyond the import and export facilities. Microsoft’s OOXML has been already accepted has a standard, so this announcement seemed a little out of place, especially because ODF and PDF get support from Office before OOXML does. It is definitely good from an interoperability perspective, and it is commendable that Microsoft has started to think of path towards its interoperability promise. [Continue]

OOXML is an ISO approved standard (press release). Microsoft has also released a public statement acknowledging the approval. All this after an initial rejection and admist a mesh of irregularities. [Continue]