OpenXML approved as ISO standard ?
That’s at least what early reports indicated yesterday. OOXML has apparently collected enough votes to be certified as ISO standard DIS 29500. The news should be confirmed today.
Despite early predictions over the last few days that the standard might be rejected for the second time (see here or there) the latest results seem to indicate that Microsoft will win this second battle.
This second vote, which I am still hopeful is good news for the Future of Documents and open document standards, has unfortunately been darkened by quite some political maneuvers even more than the first round - even CNET.com News.com titles “Open XML vote: Politics, intrigue, and, oh, some tech“under its Top headlines…
Just wanted to say, “sorry, once again I got a prediction wrong.”