IS29500
The national bodies have been notified of the results of the ISO/IEC process, and the outcome is now known: Open XML has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard. Here are links to all of the details:
- Brian Jones: Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war
- Jason Matusow: IS29500 - Open XML Is An International Standard
- Oliver Bell: DIS29500 becomes IS29500
- Stephen McGibbon: TC45 comments on ISO/IEC approval of DIS29500
- Jean van den Veld: The value of standardization bodies
- Jesper Lund Stocholm: Crucial days in Denmark - behind the curtains
- Wouter Van Vugt: “Crawling through the needle’s eye”