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| Ecma Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard Ecma International has approved Office Open XML Formats as an Ecma standard and voted to submit the new standards to the International Organization for Standardization for consideration as an ISO standard through the fast-track process. For the past year, representatives from Apple Computer, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, NextPage, Novell, Statoil ASA, Toshiba, and the U.S. Library of Congress have worked together to help ensure that the Office Open XML Formats are highly useful and interoperable in a wide variety of scenarios. The Formats have garnered positive support from a range of parties in diverse industries. The Ecma committee TC45 made significant changes to the specification and also produced more than 6,000 pages of documentation on the formats to help developers get predictable results with the formats, whether they wanted to take advantage of a few specific features or the full technology set of the formats. In the past few weeks alone, the Ecma Open XML Formats have experienced significant industry momentum. As a result of the release of the 2007 Microsoft Office system and separate announcements from Novell and Corel that they support Open XML in their OpenOffice.org and WordPerfect offerings, the Open XML Formats will be used by millions of customers worldwide, across both Windows and Linux platforms. In addition, more than 750 developers have joined the Open XML Formats Developer Group, and many government and private sector customers are evaluating the benefits for their organizations. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |