Microsoft's dominance on the desktop seems impenetrable, but efforts to standardize office document formats could one day pose a threat to one of the software giant's core revenue generators. Microsoft's Office suite accounts for more than 90 percent of today's market for desktop office productivity applications. Yet, some industry watchers believe work under way within the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), an international consortium, may someday produce a viable alternative to the de facto standard Microsoft has created through Office's proprietary document formats.
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