“As those who are following Microsoft’s OOXML formats through
the standardization process will know, those formats (now
officially known as Ecma 376, following the favorable adoption vote
in Ecma on December 7 of last year) are now in the ‘contradiction’
phase in JTC 1 at ISO/IEC. Or, so it would seem, they are in the
‘so, what is a contradiction, anyway?’ phase.“Microsoft has won the first point in this match (on which more
below), as national bodies around the world wrestle with this
question. But first, some context on what’s going on, and why it
matters…”
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