Microsoft confirms Open XML has gained ISO ratification. Looking ahead, expect scrutiny of the standards process and minimal change in the marketplace. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Office Open XML document format, its progress unimpeded so far as it speeds toward approval by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) later this year, may have hit ...

The International Standards Organization (ISO) agreed Saturday to put Open XML, the document format created and by Microsoft Corp., on a fast-track approval process that could see Open XML ratified as ...

The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard. The move came as an ISO committee meeting ...

Countries whose appeals were dismissed regarding ISO and the IEC’s approval of Microsoft Corp.’s Open XML as an international standard are questioning the judgment and relevance of those two ...

The INCITS, the technical committee advised by the V1 group to give its recommendations for ISO approval, still has to deliberate the findings of the V1 and submit its decision before an early ...