The Microsoft-created specification OOXML is struggling to achieve the two-thirds majority backing of ISO members in order for it to become a recognised standard, the aftermath of a high-profile ...

OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone, including Microsoft, will have ...

The long contentious fight over standardization of Office Open XML has ended with approval of the document standard after nearly 15 months of work by the International Standardization Organization.

Microsoft today launched an open source software project on the SourceForge site, aimed at developing conversion tools that will translate Microsoft Office binary files to Office Open XML (OOXML) file ...

Although Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format became an ISO standard two years ago, the company still hasn't built any software that truly complies with the standard. Microsoft Office ...

Via an official statement issued today, the Linux Foundation is encouraging ISO members to vote against fast-track approval for Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format. Citing the length ...

Update: Microsoft's comments can be found at the end of this article. Microsoft plays to win. As a result, it seems to regard any legal means as justified, and sometimes even strays outside the law, ...

The official standardization of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format could be delayed after a formal objection was made to the International Organization for Standardization. At the start of ...