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Try as some might to stop it, it looks like Microsoft may soon be celebrating the official recognition of its OOXML document standard as an international standard by the ISO.

Microsoft may still be riding high from obtaining ISO certification for its OOXML specification in April, because they are now openly offering to support ODF in their Office 2007 productivity software. It’s a ploy, some open source camps are whispering. It’s about time, says others.

Big news for Microsoft as they find themselves the proud parents of an ISO 29500 certified OOXML specification — almost.

The ISO — International Organization for Standardization’s approval of the Open Office XML specification was officially announced on April 2. It is subject to no official appeals from the ISO/IEC national bodies in the next two months and word is there are many questions arising already on the voting process.

Is this the end of the other ISO Office standard ODF — Open Document Format?