Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Marketplace: No Office party for Microsoft

It may seem Microsoft has already taken over the world. But the software maker has taken a hit from a computing group in Switzerland. Its members declined to designate a key Microsoft product as an international standard. Stephen Beard reports. Marketplace: No Office party for Microsoft

1 comment:

cdwf said...

Interesting story, but...who here really thinks that Microsoft's dominant market share in office software relies upon being named an ISO standard?

(listens to the crickets chirping)

I don't know any government agency in the US that chooses office software based on ISO standards, so I can't see them losing share (at least in the US) based on ISO.