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Microsoft Open XML Moves Closer To Approval
News Ecma International said on Monday that Office Open XML, the document format for the latest version of Microsoft Office, has moved to the next step in the standardisation process at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
[April 5, 2007, 8:43]
Microsoft Wins Latest Round In OpenDocument Battle
News Standards body Ecma International has created a committee to standardise Microsoft Office document formats, handing the software giant a victory in an intensifying struggle over desktop software. Ecma International's creation of the Technical...
[December 13, 2005, 16:15]
ECMA Approves Microsoft Document Format
News At the general assembly of Ecma International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft's Office Open XML — a set of specifications detailing the document formats in Microsoft's office — was certified as a standard.
[December 8, 2006, 8:30]
Microsoft Throws Governments A Standardisation Bone
News Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International. Once Microsoft Office Open XML is recognised as an ECMA standard, the group of companies then intends to pursue...
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
Java Standards Glitch May Open Door For Microsoft
News ECMA is an international industry association based in Europe and is Sun's current route for making Java an international standard. Sun Microsystems has until December 1 to inform ECMA whether it wants to continue working with ECMA to standardise...
[November 22, 1999, 10:51]
Standards Expert Defends OOXML Fast-track Bid
News 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Ecma International, said the fast-track process was necessary to ensure proposed standards are not technologically outdated by the time they are approved years later.
[March 25, 2008, 11:51]
C# Gains Support
News To convince potential customers that C# is a sound, independent technology, Microsoft has already succeeded in getting it recognised by an international standards group known as ECMA, formerly called the European Computer Manufacturers Association.
[October 11, 2002, 14:08]
EC Reluctant To Recommend OpenDocument
News But a month after Held made this statement, Microsoft announced that it was submitting its Office Open XML file formats to the European standards body ECMA International as a prelude to seeking ISO standardisation.
[May 8, 2006, 11:05]
Massachusetts May Embrace Microsoft Office
News Office Open XML, also referred to as Ecma-376, are the XML-based file formats in Office 2007 that Microsoft standardised at Ecma International late last year. Since then, however, Microsoft has submitted its Open XML file formats to Ecma, where...
[July 3, 2007, 8:48]
Massachusetts To Use Both Open XML And ODF
News The company insists that OOXML, having gained certification from standards organisation Ecma International, is now an Ecma concern, and no longer a proprietary standard. Microsoft is one of the major technology players that participate in Ecma, and...
[August 2, 2007, 18:20]
Office Open XML Could Stymie OpenDocument's Progress
News Earlier this month, Microsoft said it would be submitting its Open XML document format, which will be the default file format in the next version of its Office suite, to standards body ECMA. However, Gartner recommends that enterprises looking for...
[December 2, 2005, 15:20]
OOXML Debacle - Time To Take Away ECMA's Toys?
Blog Originally known as the European Computer Manfucturers' Association, ECMA is 46 years old, and has had a "fast track" arrangement with the international standards body, ISO for more than 20 years. But ECMA, for some reason, has the same status as a...
[March 4, 2008, 14:42]
Brazil Says 'no' To Office Open XML
News It insists that OOXML, having gained certification from standards organisation Ecma International, is now an Ecma concern, and no longer a proprietary standard. The DIN technical committee, the NIA 34, voted on the specification submitted by Ecma...
[August 24, 2007, 16:35]
Microsoft Office Open XML Gets US Knockback
News Microsoft's UK head of platform strategy, Nick McGrath, insisted earlier this year that OOXML, having gained certification from another standards organisation, Ecma International, is now an Ecma concern.
[July 17, 2007, 18:39]
Massachusetts Continues OpenDocument Debate
News However, the dominant productivity-application provider has submitted the XML-based document formats for Office to standards body Ecma International, which intends to create a standard in about a year.
[December 15, 2005, 9:05]
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]
Microsoft: IBM Masterminded OOXML Failure
News As a member of European standards group Ecma, IBM voted against the approval of Office Open XML (OOXML) as an Ecma standard. Microsoft executives have accused IBM of single-handedly leading an effort to block the software giant from having its...
[January 30, 2008, 7:31]
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]
C# Gets ISO Approval
News The ISO certification is a result of Microsoft's ongoing standardisation work with the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA), a Geneva-based standards organisation that publishes information technology standards.
[April 3, 2003, 11:25]
ECMA Ratifies C# As Standard
News Microsoft said the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) , an international technology standards organization, has ratified Microsoft's C#, a Java-like programming language, along with a component of its .Net Web services framework...
[December 14, 2001, 9:27]
