Microsoft loses key U.S. OpenXML vote

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InfoWorld reports that Microsoft have lost a key vote in its quest to develop an alternative to the Open Document Format standard

The executive committee of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) fell one vote shy of the nine required to approve Microsoft's Open XML standard. It voted 8 to 7 in favor of approval with one abstention, the group announced Thursday

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