Original sentence: After initially failing to pass, an amended version of the format received the necessary votes for approval as an ISO/IEC Standard as the result of a JTC 1 fast tracking standardization process that concluded in April 2008.Microsoft developed the original draft of Office Open XML and submitted it to Ecma International Technical Committee TC45, where it was standardized to become a free and open Ecma standard, ECMA-376, in 2006.This standard (designated "ECMA-376 1st edition") can be freely downloaded from the Ecma International web site.and published in November 2008
Edited sentence: In April 2008, after incorporating some of the proposed changes from JTC 1 members during the standardization process of Office Open XML a revised version of the specification was approved as a multi-part International Standard ISO/IEC 29500:2008, Information technology – Office Open XML formats, and published in November 2008.Microsoft originally developed the specification as a successor to its earlier binary and Office 2003 XML file formats.The Office Open XML format specification became a free and open Ecma International standard in 2006.The specification was handed over to Ecma International in 2005 to be further developed as the ECMA-376 standard by Technical Committee TC45.and can be freely downloaded from Ecma International