The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have given the green light to publish the Microsoft-backed Office Open XML (OOXML) specification after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard.

Now all we can hope is that Bob Sutor's (IBM's vice president of open source and standards) predictions come to fruition. InfoWorld [via Slashdot]