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Open standards beat Microsoft 13 to 4

Microsoft's plans of having its OOXML document format accepted as a national standard were thwarted by a conclusive vote against the move in a meeting yesterday. Read more...

Rolling News Updates: South Africa plumps for Open Documents 2007-10-29; Fallout from Office Open XML Vote Continues 2007-10-19; The Georg C.F. Greve Article - European Judgement - 'Microsoft, Antitrust, and Innovation' 2007-09-28; ODF - OOXML - Special Symphony Edition 2007-09-19; Latest Newsletter from the ODF Alliance 2007-09-07; More news…

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