There's been some heated rhetoric: On April 2, standards organization Ecma International said that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Office Open XML garnered positive votes from 75% of ISO/IEC Joint Technology Committee 1 members, making OOXML an official standard. However, opponents vow the fight isn't over. The European Union is investigating the methods Microsoft used to lobby for support, and some countries, including Norway, are crying foul. Serious technical concerns remain, including doubts over Microsoft's maintenance standards.
And much of the industry still cleaves to the Open Document Format (ODF) standard, which is supported by the OpenDoc Society and used in OpenOffice, KOffice, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Docs, IBM (NYSE: IBM) Lotus Symphony, and other productivity suites.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207100727
Seemingly Microsoft has an opponent for every 1 Gigabyte of software they've ever produced.
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