ISO has yet to decide who will control future development and improvement of the OOXML standard The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted an international standard based on Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format.The standard was approved by 86 percent of all countries voting and by 75 percent of those countries participating in JTC1, the joint committee of the ISO and the International Electrotechnical Committee that organized the vote, according to a number of sources. To pass, it required the approval of 75 percent of all countries voting, and 66 percent of those countries participating in the committee, known as P-members.Among the organizations relaying the information were Microsoft and industry standards consortium ECMA International. Microsoft first sent its OOXML document format to ECMA for approval, where it was adopted as standard ECMA-376 . ECMA then submitted its standard to the ISO where, after numerous modifications, it has been adopted as ISO standard 29500. While the ISO has sent the ballot results to the national standards bodies, it does not plan to announce them publicly until Wednesday.The results were first disclosed in a document sent to the OpenDoc Society mailing list in a posting by a Dutch technical standards committee member, Michiel Leenaars.Of the 87 countries that voted, 61 approved, 10 disapproved and 16 abstained. Among the P-members, 24 approved, eight disapproved and nine abstained, according to the document. The full results the document contained are as follows:Country Status VoteArgentina Abstention Armenia ApprovalAustralia P-Member AbstentionAustria Approval Azerbaijan P-Member ApprovalBangladesh ApprovalBarbados Approval Belarus ApprovalBelgium P-Member AbstentionBosnia and Herzegovina Approval Brazil DisapprovalBulgaria ApprovalCanada P-Member Disapproval Chile AbstentionChina P-Member DisapprovalColombia Approval Congo, The Democratic Republic of ApprovalCosta Rica ApprovalCôte-d’Ivoire P-Member Approval Croatia ApprovalCuba DisapprovalCyprus P-Member Approval Czech Republic P-Member ApprovalDenmark P-Member ApprovalEcuador P-Member Disapproval Egypt ApprovalFiji ApprovalFinland P-Member Approval France P-Member AbstentionGermany P-Member ApprovalGhana ApprovalGreece Approval India P-Member DisapprovalIran, Islamic Republic of P-Member DisapprovalIreland P-Member ApprovalIsrael ApprovalItaly P-Member AbstentionJamaica P-Member ApprovalJapan P-Member ApprovalJordan ApprovalKazakhstan P-Member ApprovalKenya P-Member AbstentionKorea, Republic of P-Member ApprovalKuwait ApprovalLebanon P-Member ApprovalLuxembourg AbstentionMalaysia P-Member AbstentionMalta P-Member ApprovalMauritius ApprovalMexico ApprovalMorocco ApprovalNetherlands P-Member AbstentionNew Zealand P-Member DisapprovalNigeria ApprovalNorway P-Member ApprovalPakistan P-Member ApprovalPanama ApprovalPeru ApprovalPhilippines ApprovalPoland ApprovalPortugal ApprovalQatar ApprovalRomania ApprovalRussian Federation AbstentionSaudi Arabia P-Member ApprovalSerbia ApprovalSingapore P-Member ApprovalSlovenia P-Member ApprovalSouth Africa P-Member DisapprovalSpain P-Member AbstentionSri Lanka AbstentionSwitzerland P-Member ApprovalSyrian Arab Republic ApprovalTanzania, United Rep. of ApprovalThailand ApprovalTrinidad and Tobago P-Member ApprovalTunisia ApprovalTurkey P-Member AbstentionUkraine ApprovalUnited Arab Emirates ApprovalUnited Kingdom P-Member ApprovalUruguay P-Member ApprovalUSA P-Member ApprovalUzbekistan ApprovalVenezuela P-Member DisapprovalViet Nam AbstentionZimbabwe AbstentionThis story was updated on April 1, 2008 Software Development