Microsoft continues to ballyhoo it’s Open Office XML format, part of Office 2007, for acceptance by the International Standards Organization, competing with OpenDocument Format for the prize. Fortunately, the ISO isn’t biting just yet, and as a result Microsoft lost a first-round vote by the national standards agencies.
But they’ll be back for another go. In the meantime, I’ll hunt around a bit to find out just which national agencies voted for Microsoft. It’d be interesting to know.