India Rejects Microsoft's OOXML Format

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 03/20/2008 - 05:25

There are reports that the BIS Committee has rejected the Microsoft's document format OOXML. India's BIS has voted against OOXML.

Out of 19 members, five of them did not attend the meeting, one of them abstained, five voted in favour of OOXML and the rest voted against.


 

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