OOXML is NOT an open ISO standard

A ballot on whether to publish the draft standard ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats, as an International Standard by ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) has not achieved the required number of votes for approval.

Today is a great day for Information freedom. The ballot on whether Microsofts Closed document format OOXML could gain Open ISO standard certification resulted in a NO!
This means that ODF is still the only real open ISO Office document format out there (which is what I have meant all the time.

Nice work to all of you that helped informing the world about why OOXML should actually be called COXML and why the world would only need one ISO standarized Office document format.

Read the full press release from ISO here:
http://www.iso.org/iso/newsandmedia/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1070

Unfortunately MS can still try to get ISO to vote yes, if it changes the things wrong with the format .

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