http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/04/04/how-to-support-freedom-of-choice-for-open-standards.aspxAs James eloquently described in his post titled " Sign-up for freedom of choice " we're looking for your support for OpenXML to be adopted as an ISO standard. It's an open XML based standard used to describe Office documents. As is often the case there'sen-GBCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/04/04/how-to-support-freedom-of-choice-for-open-standards.aspx#746022Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:54:36 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:746022Mike Stoddart<P>Steve, you'll have to forgive my cynicism, but if ISO ratifies OpenXML the fact that there are choices will be irrelevant. Microsoft controls the desktop for Office applications so ODF will always be a fringe option. Microsoft most likely won't support ODF (forgive if this is no longer true as I don't follow the industry) so in reality there will only be one choice. "You can have any colour you like, as long as it's black".</P>http://blogs.technet.com/steve_lamb/archive/2007/04/04/how-to-support-freedom-of-choice-for-open-standards.aspx#754976Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:32:44 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:754976Mike Stoddart<P>"You can have any colour you like, as long as it's black and as long as it's ours"</P>