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BRM Concludes With Myriad Undiscussed Problems for OOXML

Washington, DC, March 3, 2008. At the conclusion of the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) concerning Microsoft's Office Open XML's (OOXML), Marino Marcich, Managing Director of the ODF Alliance, issued the following statement:

“The ODF Alliance commends the spirit of cooperation that prevailed among the participants from the national delegations. Despite the hard work by the many national standards bodies and ISO/IEC, the results fell far short of fixing the most important errors and omissions in OOXML. More than 80 percent of the comments from national bodies were not discussed. It has again been demonstrated that the standardization of OOXML in a fast-track process was entirely inappropriate."