Microsoft Offers Office Document Formats to Ecma International for Open Standardization

Posted by hkwint on Nov 22, 2005 7:14 AM EDT
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[Ed: - This is huge! Office XML will be under a RAND license, and will include a convenant 'Not to sue'. They bent under the pressure, it seems. It may be too little and too late though - hkwint ]

PARIS — Nov. 22, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it will take steps to offer the file format technology behind billions of documents to customers and the industry as an international standard.

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