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UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of Microsoft's Office Open XML document format. The UKUUG is also folding in many other complaints...
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
OpenOffice.org dismisses pro-OOXML report
News The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the OpenDocument Format (ODF), as favoured by free or low-cost office-productivity suites such as OpenOffice.org, and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format, which is central...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
UN and Microsoft agree on e-trade standard
News UN/CEFACT (United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business) had been developing an XML standard for business-to-business trade, called ebXML, with standards group OASIS. Microsoft's XML architect Andrew Layman said the move...
[February 22, 2001, 16:23]
Microsoft and Sun in new clash
News Also on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it had released to manufacturing its long-awaited BizTalk Server 2000, which is Microsoft's XML orchestration server. Microsoft's story on this [XML] front is much more coherent than any other companies...
[December 13, 2000, 8:35]
XML begins to catch on
News There's not a significant industry that's not working on metadata standards for XML," notes Sun's director of global software operations, Mike Rodgers. And the standards group is working with standards groups throughout the world on developing a...
[December 9, 1999, 10:02]
Microsoft muscles in on OpenDocument group
News Last year, Microsoft submitted its Office Open XML file formats to the European standards body ECMA International, as a prelude to seeking ISO standardisation later. getting bogged down in minutia until, lo and behold, either Microsoft's XML makes...
[March 27, 2006, 9:30]
The XML champs
News Now, OASIS is a sponsor of Electronic Business XML, an effort to create international XML standards for e-commerce. SOAP has also given rise to other XML standards, industry observers point out. OASIS was a rival to Microsoft when OASIS launched...
[August 23, 2001, 6:30]
Microsoft Office Open XML gets US knockback
News On Friday, Office Open XML (OOXML) failed to gain approval in a vote by a sub-group of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), a standards body influential with the US government.
[July 17, 2007, 18:39]
Tech giants partner on security standard
News It outlines how to use existing World Wide Web Consortium specifications called XML Signature and XML Encryption. WS-Security is the fourth Web services specification created by IBM and Microsoft in the past two years and follows their creation of...
[April 11, 2002, 8:32]
Microsoft: .Net alive and well
News Laura DiDio, an analyst for research firm Yankee Group, said the software maker has a genuine zeal for standards such as extensible markup language (XML). That is XML everywhere and being much more open in terms of schemas and API's (application...
[November 20, 2003, 9:30]
Firefox: Where it came from, and where it's heading
News XUL is a way of describing user interfaces in XML. XAML (Extensible Application Markup Language) resembles XUL in that it is an XML markup for generating chrome, though the methods by which it does so are somewhat different.
[October 14, 2004, 10:55]
ISO approval 'unlikely for Microsoft Open XML'
News Microsoft submitted its Office Open XML file formats to the European standards body ECMA International last year, as a prelude to seeking ISO standardisation. The aim of all the current wrangling over XML data formats by standards bodies is to try...
[May 16, 2006, 12:55]
UK may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
News The British Standards Institution could change sides, days before voting closes, and register a vote in favour of Microsoft's Office Open XML becoming an International Organization for Standardization standard — having previously voted against.
[March 27, 2008, 16:51]
XML spec moves ahead despite gripes
News The Web's leading standards body this week advanced its seminal XML specification amid complaints that it was breaking XML's backwards-compatibility in order to benefit IBM. Despite early resistance from some XML working group members, he said, the...
[October 17, 2002, 16:48]
XML encryption specs approved
News The Web's leading standards group on Tuesday approved two XML encryption specifications, a move that promises to boost the development of secure Web services. The XML encryption technology was developed by the W3C's encryption working group...
[December 11, 2002, 7:01]
IBM attacks Microsoft over SOA
News Mills claimed there is a "big difference" between IBM and Microsoft's approaches, saying that, in contrast to Microsoft, IBM uses open standards for XML and web services. Microsoft and IBM have tussled over XML standards.
[August 8, 2007, 13:37]
Microsoft: OOXML free from proprietary hooks
News As various nations prepare to vote on whether Microsoft's Office Open XML becomes an ISO standard, the software giant is attempting to downplay fears that adopters will be hooked into the company's technology.
[August 31, 2007, 8:49]
Microsoft throws governments a standardisation bone
News Once Microsoft Office Open XML is recognised as an ECMA standard, the group of companies then intends to pursue standardisation at ISO, the International Organisation for Despite Microsoft's active embrace of XML-based file formats and work with...
[November 22, 2005, 8:30]
Microsoft to release ODF translator for Word
News The same group of Microsoft partners will now start work on code to translate file formats between Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet and PowerPoint presentation software and the corresponding ODF files, said Jean Paoli, the general manager of...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Microsoft plans OpenDocument translator
News Microsoft isn't seeing a sharp uptick in demand for OpenDocument, but government customers urged the company to provide interoperability between Microsoft's own forthcoming XML Office formats and OpenDocument, said Tom Robertson, the general...
[July 6, 2006, 10:15]
