The four countries against the Microsoft document standard

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With the addition of Denmark, currently has four countries to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) against Microsoft OOXML document standard as an international standard. Before, India, Brazil and South Africa have expressed their opposition to OOXML.

As more and more of the country’s appeal, OOXML international standards of uncertainty (Limbo) state has been unable to avoid, at present appear to oppose the growing ranks of the OOXML huge trend.

April, after a more than 14 months of assessment, the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee adopted the assessment of OOXML, Microsoft adopted the standard voting, will become the ISO international standards.

OOXML is the Microsoft Office software suite used by the document format. Microsoft has been hoped that the format can become international standards. According to the ISO, after the close of polling in the two months time, all members are eligible to vote to make a formal objection.

OOXML as an international standard will improve the company the opportunity to win government contracts, which related to the scale of billions of dollars of office software market of the future pattern, as many countries at all levels of government in the procurement of software in support of international standards document format is required.

In voted for the countries, the United States, Japan, Britain and Germany. Voted against the countries of China, Russia and India.

At present, the document format standards, China’s UOF, has become the international standard ODF (the United States, SUN, IBM led the company) and Microsoft’s OOXML in a tripartite competition. The ODF and China’s UOF is brewing standards to improve the integration of international standards. In the past a rather long period of time, the office software file format is Microsoft’s document format by the monopoly, Microsoft gained tremendous interest.

Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese UOF document format standards that the promoters Ni Guangnan, China should also raise objections to further the protection of UOF, the protection of the interests of the Chinese software makers to prevent OOXML an impact on the national standards.