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OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF
News Microsoft's decision to add support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format instead of its own OOXML office file format is due to backwards compatibility issues with OOXML, it has emerged. Microsoft's not supporting OOXML until Office 14 was...
[May 22, 2008, 15:39]
Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary'
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) has already been ratified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), but Microsoft's alternative, Office Open XML (OOXML), is currently undergoing its second attempt to gain ISO approval.
[February 26, 2008, 10:38]
OOXML approval system open to abuse
Leader From India, complaints that "we didn't oppose ODF, so why are you opposing OOXML? Whether or not OOXML is a good candidate for an open standard is beside the point: there is prima facie evidence of voting in bad faith, without proper consideration...
[August 30, 2007, 17:53]
OOXML expert: ODF flaws remain
News Alex Brown, a major contributor to the progress of the ODF's Microsoft-backed rival, OOXML, within the international standards process, carried out a "smoke test" last week, which he said showed the OpenOffice open-source application suite does...
[May 6, 2008, 17:18]
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of the process to standardise Office Open XML (OOXML), posted a blog this week reporting the results of tests which he claims reveal that OpenOffice documents do not conform to the International...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) said on Thursday that the British Standards Institution's (BSI's) decision to vote for approval of OOXML in a recent International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ballot followed a flawed...
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
Websites claim to host leaked OOXML results
News Documents purporting to be leaked results of the OOXML vote have been posted on the internet. Office Open XML (OOXML) is Microsoft's "open" document specification, in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) being promoted by the open-source...
[April 1, 2008, 16:44]
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News Joining Brazil and South Africa in appealing against OOXML being adopted as an International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) standard, the two countries sent their appeals before the Sunday...
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
News In a letter to ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Thursday, Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT), the ISO national body representing Brazil, filed an appeal against the approval of Office Open XML (OOXML) as an International...
[May 30, 2008, 15:03]
Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push
News The Word, Excel and PowerPoint file format specifications, which were previously only available from Microsoft by request, were published on Friday, together with details of an open-source Office binary-to-Office Open XML (OOXML) translator project.
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
News Present at the briefing was Burton Group research director Peter O'Kelly, who, in the week prior, had authored a report that recommended enterprise users adopt OOXML in preference to ODF. After its first attempt to have Office Open XML (OOXML...
[January 29, 2008, 7:57]
Microsoft wins battle for OOXML approval
News The International Organization for Standardization has officially approved Microsoft's OOXML specification as a standard. In the letter, he claimed that 80 percent of the committee had been against the OOXML standard being passed — Norway...
[April 2, 2008, 8:32]
Microsoft's OOXML limps through ISO meeting
News The Microsoft-created specification OOXML is struggling to achieve the two-thirds majority backing of ISO members in order for it to become a recognised standard, the aftermath of a high-profile meeting has revealed.
[March 4, 2008, 15:21]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
News In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest...
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
Lotus Symphony gets some OOXML support
News Symphony 1.3, released on Thursday, now enables imports of documents using Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format. However, the free-of-charge office suite does not yet let users save documents in OOXML.
[June 19, 2009, 15:20]
Cruel truth surfaces in the OOXML war
Leader Such would seem to be the case with Microsoft, whose frustration with the approval process for Office Open XML (OOXML) has spilled out into accusations of underhand behaviour on the part of IBM. Microsoft has said all along that OOXML will be just...
[January 30, 2008, 17:03]
UK may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
News If the British Standards Institution (BSI) registers a vote in favour, Office Open XML (OOXML) would pass one of two criteria to becoming a standard, but fail the other. A technical group formed to make a recommendation to the BSI's policy panel...
[March 27, 2008, 16:51]
Microsoft voted 'Best Campaigner against OOXML'
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), an organisation set up to aid the removal of barriers to competition in IT, gave the software giant the "Kayak Prize 2007", honouring Microsoft as the "Best Campaigner against OOXML...
[October 2, 2007, 13:00]
New Zealand OOXML rejection 'not final'
News The US Department of Defense recently raised concerns about Office Open XML (OOXML) regarding security, backwards compatibility and vendor lock-in. Some members of the Brazilian Technical Standards Organisation have also criticised the OOXML format...
[September 3, 2007, 8:54]
Hungary abstains from OOXML vote
News Office Open XML (OOXML) is currently being fast-tracked through many countries' standards bodies with the aim of gaining certification from international standards body, the International Organisation for Standardisation.
[September 4, 2007, 15:14]
