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Hyderabad, April 2 A Joint Technical Committee of the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) after 14 months of review has concluded its formal process to evaluate Ecma International’s submission of the Draft International Standard (DIS) for Office Open XML (Open XML).

While the final vote has not yet been announced, available information appears to indicate the proposed Open XML standard received extremely broad support.

About 86 per cent of all voting national body members support ISO/IEC standardisation, well above the 75 per cent requirement for formal acceptance under ISO and IEC rules. Open XML joins HTML, PDF and ODF as ISO and IEC-recognised open document format standards.

The General Manager of Interoperability and Standards at Microsoft Corp., Mr. Tom Robertson, in a statement said “with 86 per cent of voting national bodies supporting ratification, there is overwhelming support for Open XML. This outcome is a clear win for the customers, technology providers and governments that want to choose the format that best meets their needs and have a voice in the evolution of this widely adopted standard.”

The open standard has gained broad adoption across the software industry for use on a variety of platforms including Linux, Windows, Mac OS and Palm OS. Hundreds of independent software vendors and platform providers such as Apple, Corel Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft and Novell are developing solutions using Open XML that offer real value for IT users around the globe.

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