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An anonymous reader writes "Norway's yes-to-OOXML may tip the vote in favor of accepting it as an ISO-standard, but the committee chairman just faxed a formal protest to the ISO.

The fight against the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard is continuing in many countries. In the UK the UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) unsuccessfully, sought a judicial review of the British Standards Institute’s decision to vote yes.

UKUUG are now seeking to appeal against that rejection of a review and you can help them.

Adobe's popular Portable Document Format, or PDF, became the latest International Organization for Standardization standard as of Wednesday morning.

The fight against the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard is continuing in many countries.

Roundup: The not-unexpected news that OOXML is now approved as an ISO standard. But ConsortiumInfo highlights a possible delay through appeals, and InfoWorld examines how this will appear to the ongoing EU anti-trust investigation of Microsoft.

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Here's the official word from the ISO: Office OpenXML is now an official standard.

"The issues addressed and revised have resulted in sufficient national bodies withdrawing their earlier disapproval votes, or transforming them into positive votes, so that the criteria for approval of the document as an International Standard have now been met.

Subject to there being no formal appeals from ISO/IEC national bodies in the next two months, the International Standard will accordingly proceed to publication."