To join the Open XML Community, applicants must “register” their support for the file format by filling out an online form and providing an optional quote that Microsoft is free to publish and ...

Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open ...

An online petition posted by Microsoft to fast-track the standardization of its Office Open XML document format masks the company's concern over the procedure, according to a leading open-source ...

Ecma, the international standards body accepted Microsoft's proposed Open XML File Format submission for standardization.

Microsoft has achieved a small victory in its effort to make Open XML an open technology standard. Massachusetts, the U.S. state that has mandated the use of open technology formats in its ...

Open XML now joins HTML, PDF and ODF as ISO- and IEC-recognized open document format standards. "With 86 percent of voting national bodies supporting ratification, there is overwhelming support for ...

The ISO vote to approve Open XML as an international standard is only the first step in a long implementation process, say both critics and supporters of the file format.

But Ecma's approval wasn't unanimous -- IBM voted against Open XML, saying OpenDocument, which is the default format in OpenOffice, is a "vastly superior" format, and another standard was unnecessary.