Microsoft's battle for the OOXML frmat

Microsoft executives accuse IBM of leading a campaign against their initiative to have its Office Open XML standard approved by the International Organization for Standardization. Nicos Tsilas, from Microsoft, said that IBM and the likes of the Free Software Foundation have been lobbying governments to mandate the rival OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard to the exclusion of any other format. As a member of European standards group Ecma, IBM voted against the approval of Office Open XML (OOXML) as an Ecma standard.