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Title	OOXML approval only first step in road to adoption
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 04/02/2008
Summary	The International Organization for Standardization's approval of Microsoft's OOXML as an international standard is just the beginning of what could be a lengthy process before the file format can be widely and successfully implemented for exchanging documents, according to critics and supporters of OOXML. continue

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