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ISO endorses OpenDocument standard
News Microsoft, however, is not supporting OpenDocument and instead is seeking ISO standardisation for its own Office Open XML formats. Although Microsoft sits on the ballot resolution committee that will have a chance to review the ISO/IEC's comments...
[May 4, 2006, 13:30]
OpenDocument alliance 'optimistic' about ISO certification
News The Alliance, which was launched last month to promote the use of the OpenDocument standard in governments, said on Tuesday that it has been lobbying various organisations to ensure that the standard achieves ISO certification.
[April 20, 2006, 12:05]
Bottom line: no featureful implementations of ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument
Talkback But the fact remains that there are no full-featured editors that write to ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument. Numerous governments have adopted ISO/IEC:26300 OpenDocument as their national standards and procurement specifications and Microsoft has...
[May 6, 2008, 9:39]
ISO crunch time for OpenDocument
News The OpenDocument Format has been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to OASIS, the standards body that developed the format. Patrick Gannon, the president and chief executive of OASIS, said in a speech...
[October 18, 2005, 17:45]
ISO endorses OpenDocument standard
Talkback If MS's Office is so great than the output of an open document standard would not be a problem . Ne C'est Pas!
[May 4, 2006, 23:48]
ISO endorses OpenDocument standard
Talkback Microsoft simply fears true competition. If that's not enough to convince you of Microsoft's real standards then frankly you don't have a clue and you're wasting (tax) money because of that.
[May 6, 2006, 23:32]
ISO crunch time for OpenDocument
Talkback Peope can read what was written a long time ago on stone or paper but can't read what was written, say, ten years ago because nothing we have that we can use today understands the medium the just ten years old data was written in and written on.
[October 18, 2005, 22:34]
ISO crunch time for OpenDocument
Talkback "But Microsoft has said it will not support the format in future versions of its Office suite. Really ? see: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php? ID=1642
[October 19, 2005, 14:35]
ISO crunch time for OpenDocument
Talkback I don't think that we should include Microsoft PR statements into discussions like this given Microsoft's history of what was once said versus what was actually delivered AND upheld later.
[October 20, 2005, 22:01]
ISO approval 'unlikely for Microsoft Open XML'
News The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is unlikely to adopt Microsoft Office Open XML format, now that it has approved the OpenDocument Format (ODF), according to analyst group Gartner.
[May 16, 2006, 12:55]
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
News Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of the process to standardise Office Open XML (OOXML), posted a blog this week reporting the results of tests which he claims reveal that OpenOffice documents do not conform to the International...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
News Last October, Barbara Held from the eGovernment services division (IDABC) of the European Commission — an EC body that promotes the use of open document formats in public administrations — said that IDABC will start recommending OpenDocument if it...
[May 8, 2006, 11:05]
Legal worries led Massachusetts to open standards
Talkback It also looks like OpenDocument will be "Good Enough (TM)" for the International Standards Organization (ISO). I can't wait for ISO to approve the OpenDocument format as "Good Enough (TM)" Then my government won't have any excuse not to follow in...
[September 7, 2005, 13:34]
Brazil says 'no' to Office Open XML
News However, IBM uses and favours OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO-certified, open-source standard. In parallel, ABNT is turning the OpenDocument Format into a national standard and will adopt and promote as it is: a truly open, universal and...
[August 24, 2007, 16:35]
Google: OOXML 'insufficient and unnecessary'
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) has already been ratified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), but Microsoft's alternative, Office Open XML (OOXML), is currently undergoing its second attempt to gain ISO approval.
[February 26, 2008, 10:38]
Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is to be the standard format for exchanging documents within the Belgian government. The latter may be the simpler task, as the OpenDocument Foundation is already working on a plug-in for Microsoft Office that would...
[June 23, 2006, 11:40]
Microsoft: OpenDocument is too slow
News The OpenDocument Format (ODF) has come under attack from Microsoft, which claims its Office Open XML format has significantly better performance. The use of OpenDocument documents is slower to the point of not really being satisfactory," Alan Yates...
[May 25, 2006, 12:45]
Open to the public
Leader While the proposal before the Belgian government is to use an open standard, in practise that boils down to a single choice: OpenDocument. In choosing to standardise on OpenDocument for government paperwork, Belgium is sending a clear message to...
[June 23, 2006, 15:40]
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
News OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format. The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
Novell: No end to OOXML disputes
News Novell has said there is no end in sight to the continuing feud between supporters of OpenDocument Format and Microsoft's Office Open XML. Microsoft has created its own proprietary document format, Office Open XML (OOXML), as a rival to the...
[December 5, 2007, 15:56]
