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Outdated standards

The article lists 3rd ECMA specification and ISO/IEC 29500:2008 when there is 4th edition of ECMA (from December 2012) and ISO/IEC 29500-1:2012 was published on 2012-08-22 I think that until this gets fixed this article needs to be rated as C-Class and not B-Class as it is now. Qrilka (talk) 10:48, 28 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Actually 5th edition of ECMA-376 is already out --62.192.249.33 (talk) 12:49, 29 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Open Format?

This page states that OOXML is an Open format. As you can see on Wikipedia's page on Open Formats, there is no consensual definition on what one is, but it presents five different definitions from five different entities. OOXML doesn't comply with the definition of two of those give definitions. Thus, I'd argue that it is controversial to call OOXML an Open Format, and those references should be removed. -- 178.166.49.94 (talk) 23:37, 29 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As no comments were made on this for a few months, I went ahead and removed the references. -- 178.166.49.94 (talk) 19:35, 2 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted your changes. To interpret whether the format is open based on sources that do not specifically mention OOXML is a violation of Wikipedia:Synthesis. The source currently there (Fraunhofer Institute) backs up this claim (and specifically mentions OOXML). If other reliable sources unrelated to OOXML also claim that it is not a free format, then there is a controversy, but personal interpretations on-wiki are not enough. --Joshua Issac (talk) 17:26, 23 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Microsoft Visio, e.g. VSDX

Is it true, that VSDX is also an OOXML format? Shouldn't it be listed in the article then? --johayek (talk) 09:09, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]