“Word documents generated by today’s version of Microsoft Office
2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under
development by the International Organization for Standardization,
according to tests run by a document standards specialist.“In a blog posting last week, Alex Brown, leader of the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) group in
charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard,
revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the
latest specifications of the ISO OOXML draft standard…”