Microsoft Gets Backing For .Net Tools
News Microsoft submitted the technology to ECMA last year with the hope that a standardised version of the software -- administered by ECMA -- will be adopted by other software makers for building .Net-compliant programs running on operating systems...
[December 14, 2001, 6:31]
Sun Offers ODF Translator For Microsoft Office
News Microsoft's OOXML standard was adopted by Ecma International in December 2006. OpenOffice is the free open-source office suite that uses OpenDocument Format (ODF), a standard XML-based format adopted by several private companies and government...
[February 8, 2007, 8:53]
Microsoft File Standard Offers 'minimum Openness'
News Microsoft announced plans earlier this month to submit its Office 12 file formats to the European standards body ECMA International. Thus, until ECMA adopts the formats as a standard, Microsoft can do whatever it wishes, and implementers would need...
[November 28, 2005, 13:20]
Sun Attacks Microsoft's 'open' Efforts
News Microsoft, meanwhile, has tried to satisfy its critics by submitting the file formats for Office 12 to Ecma, a standards body separate from the group that certified OpenDocument. Sun, a onetime Ecma member, criticised the organisation for both its...
[December 15, 2005, 8:20]
Microsoft OOXML Finds Favour In Malaysia
News Microsoft's document format, however, had received a much-needed boost when European standards body Ecma International ratified it in December 2006. He added that over 500 local companies and trading entities have adopted nexCONNECT as their...
[January 16, 2008, 10:48]
Very Nice Albert
Talkback If the eligible members of ISI/IEC JTC1 vote not to approve OOXML, then OOXML will still be an Ecma standard, and all of the benefits to Microsoft customers and developers will still be preserved. Microsoft would not have even the incentive to...
[February 26, 2008, 20:04]
ODF 1.1 Is Indeed An International Standard
Talkback All OASIS Standards (or for that matter Ecma Standards) are international standards by this definition. An "international standard" is defined, in ISO/IEC Guide 2:2004, definition 3.2.1.1, as "[A] standard that is adopted by an international...
[May 22, 2008, 11:36]
ECMA Ratifies C# As Standard
News Microsoft submitted the technology to ECMA last year with the hope that a standardized version of the software -- administered by ECMA -- will be adopted by other software makers for building .Net-compliant programs running on operating systems...
[December 14, 2001, 9:27]
Standards Expert Defends OOXML Fast-track Bid
News Office Open XML (OOXML) was approved by Ecma in December 2006. Jan van den Beld, the former secretary general of European standards organisation Ecma International, said the fast-track process was necessary to ensure proposed standards are not...
[March 25, 2008, 11:51]
