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Developers warned over OOXML patent risk
News Developers wishing to use Microsoft's Office Open XML specification may need to brush up on their legal skills. Academics studying Microsoft's efforts to promote its Office Open XML (OOXML) specification as an ISO standard have called on the...
[February 14, 2008, 11:56]
Microsoft: Governments demanded OOXML
News The Office Open XML document format exists purely because governments demanded it, according to Microsoft, which is hoping the format will become an international standard by the end of this month. Speaking to ZDNet Australia last week, Microsoft's...
[February 11, 2008, 7:56]
Massachusetts to use both Open XML and ODF
News The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to adopt both OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's rival Office Open XML document format. Office Open XML (OOXML) was originally developed in-house at Microsoft. In a letter posted by the US state's IT division...
[August 2, 2007, 18:20]
UK may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
News The British Standards Institution could change sides, days before voting closes, and register a vote in favour of Microsoft's Office Open XML becoming an International Organization for Standardization standard — having previously voted against.
[March 27, 2008, 16:51]
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]
Microsoft: IBM masterminded OOXML failure
News Microsoft executives have accused IBM of single-handedly leading an effort to block the software giant from having its Office Open XML standard approved by the International Organization for Standardization.
[January 30, 2008, 7:31]
Point 3 wrong
Talkback Your 3rd point claims that the Office Open XML specifcation is not valid. The Office Open XML specification document is actually fully valid Office Open XML. It validates 100% correctly against the current XML schema provided with the Ecma-376...
[May 22, 2008, 10:46]
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
News OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format. The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization, according to tests run by a document standards specialist.
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
Critics brand OOXML a Microsoft 'marketing tool'
News The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization committee chair have both claimed that Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML accredited as an international standard in order to forward the company's...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
ISO calls for end to OOXML 'personal attacks'
News The International Organization for Standardization has called for "personal attacks" to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard. The move came as an ISO committee meeting in Norway attracted protesters, who gathered to...
[April 14, 2008, 13:15]
Red Hat 'disappointed but not surprised' by OOXML result
Blog Open source vendor Red Hat has expressed its disapproval of the process by which Microsoft's Office Open XML was adopted as an ISO standard. Red Hat was disappointed but hardly surprised that the single-vendor, monopolist-promulgated standard...
[April 2, 2008, 17:25]
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News Venezuela and India have appealed against the official ratification of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format, bringing the total number of protesting countries to four. Kjærsgaard's protest included assertions that Microsoft Office formats...
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
OpenOffice may support OOXML
News OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone including Microsoft will have "difficulty" in making the format work.
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
Microsoft OOXML debacle continues
News The Swedish Standards Institute has decided to invalidate its Microsoft Office Open XML vote after it found that one of the participants had voted more than once. The move follows criticism of SIS's earlier decision to vote "yes" to Office Open XML...
[August 31, 2007, 12:22]
Final deadline looms in OOXML vote
News Lobbying has intensified ahead of Saturday, 29 March, the deadline for Microsoft to convince the world that its Office Open XML specification should be accepted as a formal standard. The specification is still short of the two-thirds majority...
[March 26, 2008, 14:28]
Microsoft plans OpenDocument translator
News The conversions will be based on Microsoft's Open Office XML, the XML-based file formats that will be the default setting in Office 2007, due next year. Microsoft is seeking to make Open Office XML an Ecma International standard by the end of this...
[July 6, 2006, 10:15]
Microsoft launches OOXML drive in Philippines
News Microsoft and industry body the Computing Technology Industry Association have teamed up to drive the adoption of Office Open XML in the Philippines. Representatives from both Microsoft and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA...
[November 15, 2007, 11:53]
ISO rejects Microsoft OOXML
News Microsoft's Office Open XML document specification has failed to achieve ISO certification for now. The software giant's bid to push Office Open XML (OOXML) through the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) fast-track process has...
[September 5, 2007, 13:32]
Microsoft: OpenDocument is too slow
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) has come under attack from Microsoft, which claims its Office Open XML format has significantly better performance. Yates cited a study carried out by ZDNet.com that compared OpenOffice.org 2.0 with the XML formats in...
[May 25, 2006, 12:45]
