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Wictor Wilén

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) - SharePoint 2010 | Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - SharePoint Server MVP | Author

No ISO approval of Office Open XML

Posted at 2007-09-04 08:13 by Wictor Wilén in Office Open XML with 1 comments.

No! ECMA Office Open XML (ISO/IEC DIS 29500) will not get an approval from ISO, as of now.

This is what almost everyone expected after the last week of turbulence. Now we can hopefully look forward to some constructive work on all the recieved comments on the specification from ECMA and Microsoft. This will in the end make a better OOXML specification and I hope it will be approved in february of 2008.

Here are some more links:

I'll get back when we have something official...

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