OOXML Debacle - Time To Take Away ECMA's Toys?
Blog Comment To contribute the Ecma Office Open XML Formats standards to ISO/IEC JTC 1 for approval and adoption by ISO and IEC. To assume responsibility for maintaining the Ecma Office Open XML standard To assume responsibility for the evolution of the Ecma...
[March 5, 2008, 13:45]
Microsoft: OpenDocument Is Too Slow
News Last week ECMA published an intermediate draft of the Open XML format. ECMA is expected to make a decision about the format by the end of the year, according to Yates. Marcich said Open XML is harder for vendors to implement as it has more than 4...
[May 25, 2006, 12:45]
Critics Brand OOXML A Microsoft 'marketing Tool'
News And Microsoft's internal documentation group pretty obviously didn't have time to make it a good document when someone in the political side of Microsoft decided to dump it on Ecma. It's, at best, a tutorial and user's guide for people who want to...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
Mono Release Gives Linux Boost To .Net
News Mono implements .Net as defined in ECMA standard ECMA-335, which specifies the Common Language Infrastructure, a C# compiler and class libraries equivalent to Microsoft's own, although these fall outside the scope of the ECMA standard.
[November 9, 2006, 12:34]
Microsoft To Release ODF Translator For Word
News Microsoft, meanwhile, has standardised the Office Open XML (OOXML) document formats at Ecma International and is in the process of seeking certification with the ISO, or the International Organization for Standardization.
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Speaking Of Witch Hunts...
Talkback To their credit Ecma, and its other members like MS have listened and addressed issues, and improved spec.hence the additional pages. I read elsewhere that the recent errata for MS-OOXML is almost six times the size of the full ODF documentation!
[January 31, 2008, 14:07]
UK Standards Body Taken To Court Over OOXML
News Something that had that high a level of contention is not suitable for fast-tracking," Williams added, while referring to Ecma — the industry standards body that pushed for OOXML to be fast-tracked by ISO — as a "Microsoft poodle".
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
