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Microsoft and Open Document Standards
Microsoft are again in the spotlight with allegations that a Microsoft employee wanted entries in Wikipedia, the online volunteer edited encyclopedia, massaged to a more favourable viewpoint and were willing to pay someone to do it. The entries are about Microsoft's Office Open XML specification, which is being fast tracked to the ISO for approval as a standard, and the Open Document Format (already approved by the ISO) and comparisons of the two.
Microsoft are again in the spotlight with allegations that a Microsoft employee wanted entries in Wikipedia, the online volunteer edited encyclopedia, massaged to a more favourable viewpoint and were willing to pay someone to do it. The entries are about Microsoft's Office Open XML specification, which is being fast tracked to the ISO for approval as a standard, and the Open Document Format (already approved by the ISO) and comparisons of the two.
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