The International Organization for the Normalization approved the norm for structured documents proposal for Microsoft as norm ISO. The document of the account of the definitive voting of the proposal to circulate is it in the Internet, either even so not yet official.

According to given available the OpenXML percent of the national members with representation in committee composed for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and Comissão Electrotécnica Internacional will have congregated 86 the favorable votes of (IEC).
So that it was approved with international norm the OpenXML would have to more than collect 75 the favorable votes of percent of the voters, in a voting that of the one for finished a long and controversial process during which the community open source looked for to sensibly the international community for the arguments of not.

The International Organization of Normalization already had recognized as norm ISO ODF (OpenDocumentFormat). In the perspective of this chain one second norm for the same type of documents would bring confusion to the market. On the other hand, the community open source came defending that the OpenXML total is not opened, what it would become difficult the development of applications for third. The accusations have been refused for the Microsoft that during the process finished for having to review some characteristics of the norm proposal, giving answers the questions raised in a first voting.