Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.
New Zealand last week voted to reject Microsoft OOXML as an international standard while the Swedish Standards Institute invalidated its own vote after discovering irregularities.
Venezuela and India have appealed against the official ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, bringing the total number of protesting countries to four.
Early reports indicate that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format appears to have enough votes to be certified an ISO standard but complaints of irregularities and strong-arm tactics are rife.
Norway's national standards body has lodged a formal protest over the country's vote on Office Open XML (OOXML) at the ISO.
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