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India has become the latest country to reject Microsofts global bid to provide an alternative standard for electronic office documents. India will now vote against Microsofts proposal at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in Geneva, joining countries like China and Canada.
After a meeting of the Bureau of Indian Standards in New Delhi Thursday, its technical committee chairperson, Nita Verma, told the media: We unanimously agree on the disapproval of OOXML [Open Office Extensible Mark Up Language] with comments. The same will be submitted to ISO.
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