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Australian apathy results in OOXML 'abstain' vote
News The standards body, which represents Australia at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), said the decision was due to a clear lack of consensus and commitment throughout the development process.
[September 3, 2007, 9:18]
Microsoft: IBM masterminded OOXML failure
News After initially being rejected by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in September 2007, Microsoft has a second chance for its next-generation document format to become an international standard in February at a ballot...
[January 30, 2008, 7:31]
Microsoft admits to standards ignorance pre-OOXML
News Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee admitted that the company had no specific department or individuals focused solely on standards prior to beginning the process of fast-tracking Office Open XML (OOXML) to become officially...
[June 23, 2008, 14:21]
Fun and games with OOXML
Blog When ODF was made an ISO standard, Microsoft had to react quickly as certain governments have procurement policies which prefer ISO standards. Ecma and OASIS are "international standards", but ISO is the international "Gold Standard".
[September 13, 2007, 9:31]
Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML
News Brazil is to appeal the International Organization for Standardization decision to ratify Microsoft Office Open XML, now known as ISO/IEC DIS 29500. In a letter to ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Thursday, Associação Brasileira de Normas...
[May 30, 2008, 15:03]
UK may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
News The complex ISO standards process does, however, have a second criterion: OOXML has to be disapproved of by less than 25 percent of a larger group of 69 standards bodies, known as "O-members". The British Standards Institution could change sides...
[March 27, 2008, 16:51]
Evolution indeed
Talkback Actually the current Ecma 376 standaard is already higly compliant to the upcoming ISO standard of Office Open XML. In a previous validation test of an existing Ecma 376 document against the not yet released ISO transitional schema's, for a many...
[May 22, 2008, 11:35]
Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push
News The binaries were published in response to concerns among national bodies voting whether or not to ratify OOXML as an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard, according to Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones.
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML
Blog Search and advertising giant Google has welcomed the ISO decision to not approve the fast track of Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed standard DIS 29500 (ECMA 376) at this time. It is also incompatible with the existing ISO standard ISO 26300:2006...
[September 18, 2007, 17:16]
Microsoft makes last-gasp OOXML push
News After its first attempt to have Office Open XML (OOXML) approved as an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard failed in September, the software giant has spared no expense to ensure that it succeeds at the ballot resolution...
[January 29, 2008, 7:57]
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News Kjærsgaard's protest included assertions that Microsoft Office formats stand in the way of interoperability, XML schemas are missing in the standard, the finished specification is not available, and the maintenance of ISO/IEC 29500 has not been...
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
OOXML standard will tarnish ISO
Blog From what I can read, there were enough irregularities in the process, that ISO should refuse to accept Microsoft's Office Open XML as a standard - but I expect ISO will press right ahead and bless it.
[March 31, 2008, 9:27]
BSI to give OOXML vote results
Blog The British Standards Institute is today to give the result of its vote regarding whether the UK will approve fast track ISO certification for Microsoft's Office Open XML specification. Microsoft has been severely criticised by some members of the...
[September 3, 2007, 12:35]
ISO may change its processes following OOXML debacle
Blog The normally august International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) has said that it may change its fast track processes following the controversy around Microsoft's Office Open XML. I've been involved in a long and very interesting round of...
[April 18, 2008, 17:44]
OOXML: ISO says 'No' for now
Blog Microsoft Office Open XML has failed to gain enough votes to become an ISO standard, according to the International Organisation for Standardisation. According to ISO, the OOXML specification received 53 percent positive votes, while it failed...
[September 5, 2007, 10:18]
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News The object of the DII was to boost the interoperability between Office Open XML (OOXML) and rival XML-based document formats such as the open-source OpenDocument Format (ODF), which was already a ratified ISO standard.
[December 3, 2008, 11:11]
Microsoft: OOXML free from proprietary hooks
News As various nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's Office Open XML becomes an ISO standard, the software giant is attempting to downplay fears that adopters will be hooked into the company's technology.
[August 31, 2007, 8:49]
Websites claim to host leaked OOXML results
News I wish to inform you of serious irregularities in connection with the Norwegian vote on ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (Office Open XML) and to lodge a formal protest," wrote Pepper in a faxed letter to ISO. The documents appear to confirm that Microsoft's...
[April 1, 2008, 16:44]
South African government adopts ODF
News It is an international standard recognised by the ISO, and a rival to Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) specification. To this end, this updated [report] contains an explicit definition of open standards as well as the inclusion of the ISO Open...
[October 26, 2007, 13:54]
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]
