The OOXML saga continues…
We thought it was over - well maybe not ?
Brazil, India and South Africa have appealed against ISO’s approval of OOXML as a standard. Denmark protested too. Oh well… this might not be the end of the story after all.
More interesting than these endless ideological / political battles though is understanding the fundamental differences between OOXML and ODF. No need to read 6,600 pages (6,000 of OOXML specs plus 600 of ODF) anymore - this excellent document gives you a very succinct, (although maybe not totally unbiased ?) idea of the architectural and philosophical differences between the two standards.
And if you don’t want to have to enable Flash and other active content in order to read the paper in a format the author himself says is unclear, take his suggestion and grab it in PDF from here.