Asi je potřeba to upřesnit. Rozhovor se zástupcem IBM viz http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20061207053332191 . ECMA je jenom jednou z mnoha organizací, které připravují návrhy pro ISO (zjednodušeně řečeno - detaily viz ten článek). Bob Sutor to odhadl:
The biggest significance will be that Microsoft will be able to say that OOXML has been "approved by a standards organization." As you can tell from the above answers, this process is very complicated and takes a long time. Most people have no reason to know about it or understand what's involved, so a statement that "OOXML has been approved as a standard" will go a long way in the marketplace, for PR purposes. You can expect that Microsoft will make the most of this event.
Titulek zprávy na rootu potvrzuje správnost jeho slov.

