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The battle is not over, they seems to be large resistance to the standardization of microsofts format .
Point your browsers at http://www.noooxml.org/ , all the news is their.

In a nutshell Venezuela , South Africa , India and Brazil have all opposed the adoption and even the tiny country Denmark have complained to OSL.dk , so perhaps they have had enough of microsoft occupation, hopefully Troes will have more on this, right from the battle grounds

Just a few months back, people were demonstrating in downtown Norway over OOXML.

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Roughly 60 data experts staged a rare and noisy street demonstration in downtown Oslo on Wednesday to protest Norway joining adoption of Microsoft's document format as the international standard.

Last week, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) narrowly voted in favor of using Microsoft's Office Open XML, or OOXML, format as a world standard.

Opponents claimed the move locks out competitors and forces Microsoft customers to keep buying the American software giant's programs.


'Scandalous Behavior'
The peaceful Oslo protest was called by Steve Pepper, who stepped down as chairman of the Standards Norway committee on the issue after being outvoted in the decision that Norway will support the Microsoft standard.

Pepper said the committee ignored the advice of the vast majority of the Nordic nation's software experts. He claimed it was pressured by Microsoft and displayed "scandalous behavior."

Standards Norway has released a detailed review of the committee's decision process to rebut such claims.

"People shouldn't have to pay money to Microsoft to be able to read my documents," Pepper said. He said there was already a good ISO standard, called "OpenDocument Format," or ODF, that allows documents to be opened by programs from different software companies.