After member states filed four complaints against the standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Geneva have responded by postponing publication of the revised...
When MS announced that SP2 for Office 2007 would support ODF and not OOXML, it suffered defeat at its own hands
By Neil McAllister (InfoWorld) 30/05/2008 11:41:18
Score one for the good guys: Last week, Microsoft announced that not only would Office 2007 Service Pack 2 support the ODF (Open...
Wednesday, May 21 2008 @ 09:29 AM PDT
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Microsoft today announced that it would update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to implement its own OOXML format. Moreover, it would also join both the OASIS working group...
The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format.
The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group said on Thursday that the British Standards Institution's...
WTF : OOXML Almost An ISO Standard!
Good news or bad news, depends on which side you are on.
The International Standards Organization (ISO) will announce the results tomorrow -- 2 April 2008; but as the analysis/tracking of the votes show, Microsoft seemed to have won this battle. With the...
uesday, March 25 2008 @ 08:07 PM EDT
Another No to Microsoft's OOXML, this one from Brazil. Avi Alkalay has the news:
Updated: Czechia however has voted Yes, which changes from their earlier Disapprove, adding these extraordinary words:
Hahahaha. "Maximum...
After India's NO vote for OOXML, this is yet another dirty old game Microsoft is so found of doing over and over again to push their propietory format into the open world and dilute the whole meaning of openness. :lol:
PS: Source is not my blog
Microsoft influencing partner NGOs to support OOXML in India
By Mayank Sharma on March 04, 2008 (9:00:00 PM)
Microsoft is encouraging its business partners to promote its Office Open XML specification (OOXML) to...
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