New York, NY (AHN) - Software giant Microsoft Corp. has received the global standard certification it's been after for its open document format from the International Standardization Organization and International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC). The Geneva-based ISO/IEC has yet to officially announce the result of the final round of voting on the Office Open XML. However, documents obtained by the Intellectual Property Watch indicated that 86 percent of the national standardization bodies have approved the default file format for Microsoft Office 2007.

Under ISO rules, the OOXML needed more than 75 percent approval votes from the national bodies to become a global industry standard.

In September, the OOXML got less than the required two-thirds of votes in the second round of voting held in Sweden. But Microsoft launched an intensive lobbying campaign that convinced Denmark, Ireland, Norway, South Korea and the U.K. to change their minds in the final voting. India, China and Brazil were opposed to the software.

At present, HTML, PDF and ODF are the open document format standards recognized by the ISO/IEC.