Open-source community reacts to Microsoft move
News Commit to open standards: Rather than pushing forward its proprietary, Windows-based formats for document processing, OOXML, Microsoft should embrace the existing ISO-approved, cross-platform industry standard for document processing, Open...
[February 22, 2008, 12:42]
Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
News Microsoft has been trying to fast track the specification through the certification process of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), but it failed in its first attempt in September.
[December 5, 2007, 15:56]
Crime, but no punishment for Microsoft
Talkback You can download the ISO images of Fedora Core for free. You can download the ISO images of Suse for free. Ironically, your rant is actually a fair description of Microsoft, which is why I don't use Microsoft products.
[June 20, 2005, 10:34]
Microsoft licensing switch pleases Becta
News He asked: "If not for the stance of Neelie Kroes and the European Commission, if not for the OOXML roadshow and the ISO controversy, if not for Becta's OFT complaint, does anyone believe this would happen?
[September 16, 2008, 18:08]
A challenge to all Linux Users in the World
Blog Comment The ISO for the install on the server is a DVD image a little over 1.1GB. A second ISO of about 296 MB is a Windows bare metal restore disk that probably loads Windows PE (Pre-install Environment, fancy name for No-GUI Windows) and talks sweet to...
[June 16, 2007, 7:20]
Mandrake takes UnitedLinux to task
News Red Hat's new Advanced Server, aimed at higher-end enterprise tasks, will not be available as ISO images for burning CDs. MandrakeSoft, maker of one of the more popular versions of Linux, says it will not join a new initiative combining several of...
[July 3, 2002, 13:50]
Bare metal hypervisors: a group test review
Reviews Two files are required, an INSTALL and LINUX ISO, totalling a little over a gigabyte. The following table summarises each of the products' configuration limits: Unlike the previous two hypervisors that use a Linux-based kernel, Hyper-V is wrapped...
[June 1, 2009, 0:00]
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]
Mostly right, with critical exceptions
Talkback There is a certain responsibility when you control the market and wield the power that Microsoft does, and the very questionable events around this ISO standard do not give the impression that Microsoft is respecting that responsibility.
[April 15, 2008, 15:59]
