India and Brazil against Office Open XML format as an international standard
Brazil and India have now filed an appeal against selection of the Microsoft’s Office Open XML format as an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents.
With this, three countries have now filed their protest against the decision to make this format an international standard.
South Africa [...]

Office Open XML could become an ISO standard
Market sources say that Microsoft could soon find some major relief as their Office Open XML is likely to garner enough votes to become an ISO Standard.
The official results are likely to come later today.
The voting was closed Saturday night and market sources say that the format [...]