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”

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2008
  Here is the correct URL to Oliver Bell's blog-article: http://osrin.net/2008/04/02/dis29500-becomes-is29500/

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2008
  Thanks, Peder, I've corrected that.  It's still early enough in the morning (in Singapore) that Oliver may not have noticed.

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2008
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  April 01, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 01, 2008
  So when will MS Office implement the standard?

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2008
  Eilne uudis on see, et DIS 29500 ehk Open XML -i standard, mis oli viimasel hääletusel ISO/IEC standardite

• Anonymous
  April 01, 2008
  Looks like it's official now.  Here's the ISO press release: http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123

• Anonymous
  April 02, 2008
  Congratulations, you've succeeded in making a mockery of the standards process

• Anonymous
  April 02, 2008
  DJ, we're looking into the details on that and we'll announce our plans after they firm up.  We're committed to implementing IS29500 (as Chris Capossela announced recently), so it's just a matter of figuring out the scope of the changes and planning/executing the work.

• Anonymous
  April 02, 2008
  I thought that Microsoft participated in the submission and the review process. Odd that MS would not be able to roll out the compliant version of Office within a week or so. Keeping up with - what - 38? changes should no be a big deal.

• Anonymous
  April 02, 2008
  At least there are people in China, Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela who still care about freedom.

• Anonymous
  April 02, 2008
  Dave, you might be accustomed to making random changes to code and kicking it out the door untested, but that's not how Microsoft does things.

• Anonymous
  April 02, 2008
  @Dave S It is probably stranger that OpenOffice still has not managed to make an application that provides full support for any versions of ODF in the 5 years that they have been busy with that format now. ODF is supposed to be relativly small and simple or is it ....

• Anonymous
  April 03, 2008
  Don't be snarky, Dave S.  You know there were about 1000 changes approved at the BRM, not 38.

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  April 03, 2008
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  April 03, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 03, 2008
  Yes ..really thanks everybody, people who were "for" and people who were "not for". I believe that everything

• Anonymous
  April 03, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 05, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 08, 2008
  @John Hensley (& Ian) - Clever. I did not refer to random changes, but to a well defined set of changes that were critical to the passage of MSO-XML into ISO standing. On second thought, why is the common wisdom to -never- buy an MS 1.0 product? As to the number of changes, the majority appear to have been formating changes, or what should be simple extensions. Unless the code is poorly modularized. Given that each program has idiosyncratic behaviors around what should be identical tasks, I'm pretty sure modularity is not the strong suit. @hAL - when Open Office holds a 95%+ market share and sends attorneys to discuss technical matters with government representatives, then I'll care what they have done. Why you care is your problem.