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ISO rejects Microsoft OOXML - ZDNet.co.uk ZDNet UK CNET NETWORKS UK BUSINESS SITES:atlarge.comBNET UKsilicon.comSmartPlanet.comZDNet.co.uk Skip to Main Content Home News Blogs Reviews Prices Resources Community My ZDNet Video Leader Comment Benchmarks White Papers Downloads Competitions Hardware Software Communications Internet Security IT Management Emerging Tech Leader Group Blogs News Blog Post Room Rupert's Diary Hardware Reviews Software Reviews Editor's Choice Buyer's Guides Tech Guides Competitions Laptop prices Desktop prices PDA prices Printer prices Monitor prices Scanner prices Server prices Jobs Articles White Papers Downloads Companies Events Broadband Speed Test Research Panel Benchmarks Forums People Competitions Post Room You are here: ZDNet.co.uk > News > Software Enterprise applications Toolkit ISO rejects Microsoft OOXML Tags: Governments, Failed, Committee, Achieve Tom Espiner ZDNet.co.uk Published: 05 Sep 2007 13:32 BST Microsoft's Office Open XML document specification has failed to achieve ISO certification for now. The software giant's bid to push Office Open XML (OOXML) through the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) fast-track process has suffered a serious setback, as OOXML failed to receive enough votes to gain approval, the ISO announced on Tuesday on conclusion of the balloting process. National standards bodies from 104 countries have been casting votes over the past five months to decide whether OOXML should receive ISO certification, including standards bodies from 41 countries that participate in ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1). ISO procedures demand that a specification must receive a "Yes" vote from at least two-thirds of JTC1 to gain approval. Microsoft received "Yes" votes from just 53 percent of the committee. OOXML also fell at a second hurdle. ISO procedures require that a specification receives "No" votes from less than 25 percent of JTC1, but OOXML received 26 percent, as revealed in an ISO statement. However, OOXML may yet achieve ISO ratification. The next stage of the process will be a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva in February 2008, where comments that accompanied the past five months of votes will be discussed by a sub-committee of JTC1. "The objective of the meeting will be to review and seek consensus on possible modifications to the document in light of the comments received with the votes," said the ISO's statement. "If the proposed modifications are such that national bodies then wish to withdraw their negative votes and the acceptance criteria are met, the standard may proceed to publication," said the ISO statement. "Otherwise, the proposal will have failed and this fast-track procedure will be terminated. This would not preclude subsequent re-submission under the normal ISO/IEC standards development rules." Read this Leader: OOXML approval system open to abuse The Office Open XML approval process is not up to standard. Pushing ahead will be a mistake… Read more Acceptance of OOXML as an ISO standard would pave the way for governments to use the document format. Critics of the specification say it contains proprietary components that could lock governments into perpetual commercial relationships with Microsoft. The OOXML specification is currently a draft ISO standard, ISO/IEC DIS 29500, and it has been recognised as a standard by ECMA, a standards organisation within which Microsoft participates. Microsoft drew attention to the countries that had voted for OOXML. "We are extremely delighted to see that 51 ISO members, representing 74 percent of the qualified votes, have already voiced their support for ISO ratification of Open XML, and that many others have indicated that they will support ratification once their comments are resolved in the next phase of the ISO process," said Tom Robertson, general manager for interoperability and standards at Microsoft, in a statement. The figure of 74 percent is the total of the "Yes" votes and abstentions. Microsoft has sought to influence the vote in some countries by encouraging its partners to join the voting bodies shortly before the voting process kicked off. Hungary abstains from OOXML vote The country has declined to vote on Microsoft's controversial format after IBM warned of 'irregularities' in the process; meanwhile France has said no [04 Sep 2007] Microsoft OOXML debacle continues Sweden has revoked its original 'yes' vote for fast-tracking OOXML for ISO certification, after a participant was found to have voted more than once [31 Aug 2007] BSI silent on OOXML vote result The British Standards Institution has refused to divulge either the membership of its technical committee or the outcome of its vote on OOXML [04 Sep 2007] Raymond attacks Microsoft over OOXML fiasco Eric Raymond has warned that the Microsoft Permissive License may be refused OSI approval following the OOXML debacle [03 Sep 2007] 2 Talkbacks New Zealand OOXML rejection 'not final' Standards New Zealand may change it's ISO fast-track vote to 'yes', if Microsoft is able to address 16 technical concerns [03 Sep 2007] 1 Talkback Microsoft: OOXML free from proprietary hooks As national votes on OOXML loom, Microsoft is attempting to persuade potential adopters they will not be locked into a proprietary file format [31 Aug 2007] 2 Talkbacks Microsoft accused of rigging OOXML votes Microsoft admits encouraging partners to join bodies deciding on ISO recognition of OOXML, but says that a Swedish memo offering rewards for doing so was an error [30 Aug 2007] 1 Talkback OOXML approval system open to abuse The Office Open XML approval process is not up to standard. Pushing ahead will be a mistake [30 Aug 2007] 5 Talkbacks Brazil says 'no' to Office Open XML The Brazilian Technical Standards Organization has voted against Microsoft's OOXML ISO certification [24 Aug 2007] Did you find this article useful?5 out of 5 people found this useful Share this article: Post a comment Full Talkback thread 1 comment ISO rejects Microsoft OOXML ator1940 Related Links News Hungary abstains from OOXML vote Roundup Microsoft OOXML debacle continues News BSI silent on OOXML vote result News Raymond attacks Microsoft over OOXML fiasco News New Zealand OOXML rejection 'not final' News Microsoft: OOXML free from proprietary hooks News Microsoft accused of rigging OOXML votes Leader OOXML approval system open to abuse News Brazil says 'no' to Office Open XML More In Enterprise applications Microsoft demos Live Mesh SAP, Salesforce debate future of hosted apps Super Techies: Marc Benioff Salesforce chief takes stock of software shifts Company/Topic Alerts Create a new alert from the list below: Microsoft ISO OOXML Ecma Install Flash Player Plugin Featured Talkback The internet is going to have do a lot of maturing before it is ready for this kind of traffic. 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