In the ultimate battle for control over global IT standard for documents - between Microsoft-promoted OXML and Sun and IBM-backed Open Document Format (ODF), India took the side of existing ODF.

The standards committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards decided to vote against Microsoft's OXML being adopted as a standard, along with existing ODF, by the Geneva-based international standards body, ISO, where representatives of member countries are slated to decide on the matter by March 29.