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OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learnedPosted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on Mar 31, 2008 7:55 AM
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The votes have been tallied but it's still not 100 percent certain that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document-format is going to become an ISO standard.[Read the rest]

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