Microsoft Loses XML Vote
 

*Source: PC World (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...article.html)*
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Microsoft Corp. has lost a key vote in its quest to develop an alternative to the Open Document Format standard, backed by the open-source community.

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 (http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvot...llo t_id=2212) last week.

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