Brazil says 'no' to Office Open XML
News After a very difficult and inconclusive meeting in ABNT (Brazilian Technical Standards Organization) office last Tuesday, the standards process director had to analyse the audio recording of all the meeting, review some facts, review again all 63...
[August 24, 2007, 16:35]
Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
News The British Standards Institution took a vote on whether it would accept OOXML days before the ISO's decision, but it refused to say whether it voted for or against the specification. Microsoft has created its own proprietary document format...
[December 5, 2007, 15:56]
OpenOffice may support OOXML
News The specification for Office Open XML (OOXML, or Open XML), was officially passed as fit-for-purpose by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on Wednesday, despite many allegations of improper practice in the voting process.
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
It's the business processes that are bound to MSOffice
Talkback The December 2007 MSOffice SDK beta featured a nifty round-trip conversion component for flipping an ISO 29500 document (the XML encoded binary otherwise known as OOXML) to the proprietary XAML "fixed/flow" Web ready format.
[December 31, 2008, 7:27]
Microsoft Promise Great News For Hobbyists!
Talkback As usual, it's a marketing ploy, and it's no coincidence that it comes just a day or two before national boards will meet in Geneva to discuss MS-OOXML. Or maybe they just try for dueling standards, by vote-rigging, deceit and buying headlines...
[February 23, 2008, 8:51]
Microsoft's open-source patent threat still intact
News And as ZDnet blogger Mary Jo Foley noted, the ISO standards group is meeting in Geneva next week to vote on whether OOXML should be awarded official standard status. Take OOXML, the office document format Microsoft is trying to standardise as an...
[February 22, 2008, 12:03]
Final deadline looms in OOXML vote
News OOXML does not deserve to be an international ISO standard," said Avi Alkalay, an open-standards, open-source and Linux adviser at IBM Brazil, and a member of the technical committee given responsibility for deciding Brazil's opinion as an observer.
[March 26, 2008, 14:28]
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]
No threat at all then really
Talkback After all they haven't been having a good time of it recently with the EU ruling against them and failing to railroad OOXML through the ISO voting process. If Microsoft actually thought they could gain anything from suing Linux users or suppliers...
[September 19, 2007, 21:55]
Google motivation
Talkback That is why Google is against OOXML becoming an ISO standard, because then Google will have to compete more against office software that has features Google apps cannot provide (at least for a while).
[February 27, 2008, 9:16]
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]
ISO never learns, IBM does
Blog The ISO ballot resolution meeting, remember, didn't resolve all the issues, and Microsoft has admitted it will get the standardised version of ODF working sooner: Office 2007 will never support standardised OOXML.
[September 23, 2008, 20:18]
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]
Microsoft's Argument is Ridiculous
Talkback In addition to this, Microsoft can still support the already existing ISO certified document format, ODF. I thought Jim Zemlin, the Executive Director of the Linux Foundation had a funny quote: In this case and others, such as HTML or electrical...
[February 26, 2008, 19:25]
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]
