ISO approves Open Document Format

The Open Document Format is now a standard, after gaining approval this week from the International Standards Organization. The standard is based on the open-source OpenOffice software suite's format and is endorsed by basically everyone except Microsoft. A Microsoft spokesman said they'll support interoperability with ODF documents if and when it becomes popular, but they'll also continue pushing and licensing their own hoped-for standard called Open XML.

For more on the standard:
- read this Computerworld article