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ISO Credibility
Talkback If ISO approves OOXML, we lose our precious Internet as a universal platform of access, exchange and collaborative computing. If ISO kills OOXML, Microsoft will eXtend and enhance ODF as needed because that is how ODF is designed.
[March 4, 2008, 8:30]
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]
Becta Takes Microsoft Complaint To EC
News However, at the start of this year the Commission began its own investigation into Microsoft's interoperability issues, an investigation that has since expanded to take in questions over how Microsoft may have used its dominance in the sector to...
[May 13, 2008, 14:42]
If OOXML Is Approved ....
Talkback Perhaps it does not actually matter whether OOXML is a dog's breakfast or not, or even whether M$ can implement it or not, they will not have any obligation to implement ODF and similarly they will not adopt ODF.
[April 1, 2008, 9:10]
Cruel Truth Surfaces In The OOXML War
Leader Such would seem to be the case with Microsoft, whose frustration with the approval process for Office Open XML (OOXML) has spilled out into accusations of underhand behaviour on the part of IBM. Microsoft has said all along that OOXML will be just...
[January 30, 2008, 17:03]
Microsoft Dismisses Becta Criticism
News Becta said it was concerned about Microsoft's support of its own document specification, Office Open XML (OOXML), on which Office 2007 is based. In the meantime, the agency suggested that schools save documents in traditional formats, such as .doc...
[January 10, 2008, 11:28]
Oh, Hating Microsoft Is So Cool...
Talkback No matter how much you all hate Microsoft, OOXML is already a atandard. OOXML is a good format that will soon be recognizeable by 90% of all word processors used in whole world. Even if Microsoft invents a ultra mobile spaceship for everyone, it...
[April 15, 2008, 9:19]
ODF 1.1 Is Indeed An International Standard
Talkback Was the approval of OOXML an indication of quality that is worth the effort attaining? All OASIS Standards (or for that matter Ecma Standards) are international standards by this definition. An "international standard" is defined, in ISO/IEC Guide...
[May 3, 2008, 14:55]
Microsoft Wins Battle For OOXML Approval
News The International Organization for Standardization has officially approved Microsoft's OOXML specification as a standard. In the letter, he claimed that 80 percent of the committee had been against the OOXML standard being passed — Norway...
[April 2, 2008, 8:32]
EC Investigating Microsoft Over OOXML
News The European Commission said in January that it was exploring whether the OOXML file formats are sufficiently interoperable with competitors' products. OOXML is a technical specification that describes the inner workings of how to read and create...
[April 3, 2008, 14:12]
OOXML Interop Is Abysmal
Talkback Albert, thank you for acknowledging that OOXML interop is application-level rather than being enabled and required by the format specifications. One huge problem with both OOXML and ODF is that neither specifies an interoperability framework.
[February 29, 2008, 18:03]
Microsoft Launches OOXML Drive In Philippines
News Representatives from both Microsoft and the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), in a briefing last week, said they will hold various campaigns, as well as talks with government and private-sector groups, with the aim of...
[November 15, 2007, 11:53]
Microsoft Has Right To Dictate Standards; They're Meaningless
Talkback The reason we will use OOXML is simple: it will be (is) common and it already is a default document format in our word processors (ok, in my it already is, in your perhaps will be soon). It means that OOXML documents will be recognized same as is...
[April 15, 2008, 12:57]
You've Got To Be Kidding, Albert
Talkback That is why OOXML is a much better choice for people wanting the functionality the MS Office provided or the compatiblity with the existing filebase. By my count, Part 4 of the OOXML specification identifies separate 573 extension points whose...
[March 1, 2008, 14:29]
Thank You For An Intelligent Response.
Talkback On the other hand, I'm assuming that with OOXML you need to read in the whole document before doing any processing since tags in general can occur in any order, so what you are really describing is the internal representation of the document, and...
[February 28, 2008, 8:24]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog An official announcement is awaited, but it seems certain now that Microsoft's OOXML specification has made its way through the ISO fasttrack process, albeit with many serious concerns over the way in which the voting unfolded.
[March 30, 2008, 11:48]
Not 1,500 Extensions
Talkback As far as international standards go, both ODF and OOXML need to be thrown in the scrap heap and a fresh vendor neutral standard developed. But rooting for either ODF or OOXML is just lobbying against interoperability.
[March 1, 2008, 1:33]
Interoperability And The Binary ODF Conversion Dilemma
Talkback Florian wrote the da Vinci ODF plug-in for MSOffice, and, the OOXML conversion plug-in for Novell's OpenOffice. That the many conversion sector inspired efforts to improve “compatibility-interoperability” within the OASIS ODF TC were defeated or...
[February 29, 2008, 8:21]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog Comment Irregularities have been reported just about anywhere a national body, or anybody else for that matter, has voiced support for OpenXML. Some members of the technology community are so emotionally committed to their own point of view that they...
[March 31, 2008, 9:20]
Fun And Games With OOXML
Blog Its a simple matter of commercial interests" Quick quiz - no referring. Who said. Well, its too early for other vendors to commit to this file format. After the BRM [Ballot Resolution Meeting - in February 2008] there may be changes to it, so it is...
[September 13, 2007, 9:31]
