OOXML was ratified as an international standard by the ISO/IEC organizations in April. However, the EC has been engaged since January in investigating interoperability issues surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document formats, which are used in the Microsoft Office 2007 software suite. Its charges to the EC echo complaints about Microsoft's educational licensing agreements, as well as the interoperability of Microsoft's XML file formats, that the group first filed with the U.K.'s Office of Fair Trading back in October.Ī press officer for the EC commented that the EC isn't treating Becta's complaint as a formal antitrust complaint, according to an IDG News Service story. government with technology decision-making for thousands of U.K. Issued by the Becta consulting group yesterday.īecta, or the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, helps the U.K. government has forwarded complaints about Microsoft's licensing and interoperability practices to the European Commission (EC), according to Education Group Escalates Microsoft ComplaintsĪ consultancy to the U.K.
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