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 ...

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 ...

Objections to the Open XML proposal included contentions that Microsoft’s file format should be made more interoperable with ODF, which already has been accepted as a standard by Geneva-based ISO.