A computer battle that could change the world as you know it

23rd July 2007
By Alexander Howard

A battle royal is going on behind the scenes as the International Standards Organisation (ISO) deliberates over whether two standards for office software should continue to be approved, or only one. The British Standards Institute (BSI) will be voting on this alongside the other standards bodies this summer.  

The implications of the decision will reverberate far and wide across the globe.  It will affect the kind of software we will all use in the next decades, the shape o…