Microsoft's embattled Office Open XML (OOXML) document format received ISO fast-track approval today after receiving support from approximately 86 percent of the national bodies that participated ...

Microsoft confirms Open XML has gained ISO ratification. Looking ahead, expect scrutiny of the standards process and minimal change in the marketplace.

Microsoft was in danger of losing the lucrative customer base for its Office suite – the company's second-biggest cash cow behind Windows – as long as it lacked the ISO's rubber stamp.

While Microsoft lost round one in its campaign to gain ISO approval of its OOXML [Office Open XML]file format, it is best to remember this is still early in the game, especially when it comes to ...

The problem is not with the Microsoft technology. The problem is with the Microsoft attitude, which seems eerily similar to what we've seen in U.S. politics for a long time now.

It looks as if Microsoft’s OOXML office document file format will be published as an open standard after all. The International Standards Organization (ISO) today rejected four appeals from ...

The votes are in, and Microsoft’s Office OpenXML document format has failed to achieve status as a standard in the International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) Fast Track process ...

Microsoft has been pushing hard for its Office Open XML file format—which was approved by the ECMA back in December 2006—to get fast-tracked to become a full ISO standard.

Standards body tells Microsoft to rework Office Open XML document format and try again next year.