...votes this week. Google is firmly behind ODF, the document format backed by Microsofts enemies at Sun and IBM, who hope to use it as a wedge against Microsoft Offices market domination.

Googles open-source programs manager, Zaheda Bhorat, posted a blog on Monday urging those delegates to vote against Open XML because Google believes that it is an insufficient and unnecessary standard, designed purely around the needs of Microsoft Office.

Bhorat said Open XML should be subsumed into the existing standard"OpenDocument Format, or ODF"which is backed by Microsoft rivals, including Google.

In a document more thoroughly laying out its position on Open XML, Google says the core problem with the specification is that its redundant with ODF. The company also says its too specific to Microsoft Office and that its of insufficient quality.

Submitting such a proposal makes a mockery of the standards process, according to the Google assessment.

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