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Microsoft Looks for the Big Guns in OOXML In-Fighting

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“Bill Gates has reportedly been making phone calls to the
Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce to push the
American National Standards Institute to ignore the votes of its
advisory committees and vote ‘yes’ on ISO standardizing Microsoft’s
Open Office XML (OOXML) format, the one in competition with the
OpenDocument Format (ODF) pushed by IBM and Sun…”

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