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Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting

...silent until after the deadline passes. The silence around last month's ballot resolution meeting has been broken, however, with details supplied by a Brazilian... Read more

28 March, 2008 by Peter Judge

Proprietary past looms over Microsoft OOXML hopes

...30 member countries of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) have attended a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva to prepare for a final decision on Microsoft... Read more

28 February, 2008 by Marcus Browne

Is Microsoft reneging on its OOXML standards promise?

...and does it need it? Alex Brown, the Convener of the Geneva Ballot Resolution Meeting where OOXML became an ISO standard, has been claiming that... Read more

5 April, 2010

ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover bid?

...the group tasked with fixing flaws in OOXML, that remained following the Ballot Resolution Meeting, despite OOXML's enshrinement as ISO/IEC 29500:2008. This... Read more

5 October, 2008

ISO never learns, IBM does

...that - from many accounts - doesn't actually work very well. The ISO ballot resolution meeting, remember, didn't resolve all the issues, and Microsoft has... Read more

23 September, 2008

IBM warns standards bodies to shape up

...Initially rejected by ISO members, OOXML was approved after a week-long ballot-resolution meeting. Supporters of the rival ODF document standard alleged that national... Read more

23 September, 2008 by Peter Judge

Brazil appeals ISO ratification of OOXML

...that ABNT was appealing to ISO on the grounds that the ISO ballot resolution meeting (BRM) in April was inconclusive. According to ABNT, the total... Read more

30 May, 2008 by Tom Espiner

OOXML ratification faces delay after objection

...approval. One relates to the way in which those participating in the ballot resolution meeting (BRM), held prior to the vote, were not allowed to... Read more

27 May, 2008 by David Meyer

Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test

...in control of the specification. As changes were made at an ISO ballot resolution meeting, Office 2007 documents no longer conform to the current standard... Read more

21 April, 2008 by Peter Judge

Google: OOXML still insufficient and unnecessary

...magically fixed between the end of February and now, despite that infamous ballot resolution meeting Read more

3 April, 2008

Websites claim to host leaked OOXML results

...around 6,000 pages. These issues were to be addressed at a ballot resolution meeting in late February, but a Brazilian delegate to that meeting... Read more

1 April, 2008 by David Meyer

Australia abstains on final OOXML vote

...s technical issues. Most recently this involved finalising queries at February's ballot resolution meeting (BRM) in Geneva, which was described as a "shocking tale... Read more

31 March, 2008 by Marcus Browne

Standards expert defends OOXML fast-track bid

...had raised regarding OOXML had not been addressed satisfactorily during the ISO ballot resolution meeting in Geneva last month. However, van den Beld argued that... Read more

25 March, 2008 by Lee Min Keong

Microsoft's OOXML limps through ISO meeting

...were made. From these, 1100 suggested changes were distilled. Last week's "ballot resolution meeting" dealt with 20 percent of these comments, but nodded the... Read more

4 March, 2008 by Peter Judge

Developers warned over OOXML patent risk

...to understand. OOXML, under consideration to become an ISO standard at a ballot resolution meeting later this month, can only be considered as a standard... Read more

14 February, 2008 by Brett Winterford

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