To join the Open XML Community, applicants must “register” their support for the file format by filling out an online form and providing an optional quote that Microsoft is free to publish and ...

Open XML’s approval as a standard is considered key to helping Microsoft keep its 90-plus percent share among productivity software users worldwide. Some countries and U.S. states have either ...

Open XML, the default file format in Office 2007, was certified in December as a standard by Ecma International, another Geneva-based standards group, after a yearlong process shepherded by Microsoft.

Open XML is being championed by another standards group, Ecma International, which in December approved 20-1 a proposal to certify Open XML, the native document format in Office 2007.

HOME blogs op ed unblog 174915192 Ecma Says Yeah To Microsoft Open Office XML News Ecma Says Yeah To Microsoft Open Office XML By Barbara Darrow December 11, 2005, 11:04 AM EST ...