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Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
News In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed that Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest...
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push
News The Word, Excel and PowerPoint file format specifications, which were previously only available from Microsoft by request, were published on Friday, together with details of an open-source Office binary-to-Office Open XML (OOXML) translator project.
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
But does even Microsoft Office use OOXML?
Talkback These people say that even MS Office 2007 cannot create documents in OOXML, which makes the format about as useful as a chocolate teapot: http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/0,1000001161,39348275-39001068c-20091749o,00.htm http://www.zdnet.co.uk...
[February 28, 2008, 8:25]
OOXML is partially supported in the current version of Microsoft's office .
Talkback The standard that isn't. Typical of M$, changing horses in midstream.
[May 23, 2008, 13:40]
Microsoft over OOXML fiasco
Talkback Any person, business, or government will be able to use MS Office even if OOXML does not become a standard. It isn't going to hurt M$'s bottom line. It only means that there will be a choice instead of a monopoly.
[September 4, 2007, 12:28]
Opening Access to Office Information With OOXML
White Papers The PSC developers created an OOXML solution that has the ability to build stand-alone applications that can access the contents of documents logically, without actually having to know the ins and outs of the format itself.
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
Microsoft: Don't be so quick to attack OOXML
News Ahead of this month's International Organization for Standardization decision in Geneva on the status of the software giant's contentious Office Open XML format, a visiting executive from Microsoft has said its persistence with the format has been...
[February 7, 2008, 8:29]
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]
Microsoft voted 'Best Campaigner against OOXML'
News The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII), an organisation set up to aid the removal of barriers to competition in IT, gave the software giant the "Kayak Prize 2007", honouring Microsoft as the "Best Campaigner against OOXML...
[October 2, 2007, 13:00]
Raymond attacks Microsoft over OOXML fiasco
News Eric S Raymond, a founding member of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), labelled Microsoft's behaviour in pushing Office Open XML (OOXML) for fast track ISO certification as "egregious", and said that he was almost ready to recommend that Microsoft...
[September 3, 2007, 15:53]
Microsoft accused of rigging OOXML votes
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday, Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) president Georg Greve said unprecedented numbers of Microsoft partner companies from several countries have joined standards organisations and have voted to approve the...
[August 30, 2007, 16:27]
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]
OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF
News Microsoft's decision to add support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format instead of its own OOXML office file format is due to backwards compatibility issues with OOXML, it has emerged. However, Microsoft on Thursday told ZDNet.co.uk that the...
[May 22, 2008, 15:39]
ISO rejects Microsoft OOXML
News The software giant's bid to push Office Open XML (OOXML) through the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) fast-track process has suffered a serious setback, as OOXML failed to receive enough votes to gain approval, the ISO...
[September 5, 2007, 13:32]
Microsoft's U-turn: ODF support and not OOXML?
Blog After all its efforts in support of OOXML, Microsoft has decided Office 2007 will handle ODF documents - and will never support the standardised version of its OOXML format, which it fought so hard for.
[May 22, 2008, 7:39]
OpenOffice may support OOXML
News OOXML is crucial to the future development of Microsoft's Office suite, and the chief rival to that product is the free OpenOffice suite. The specification for Office Open XML (OOXML, or Open XML), was officially passed as fit-for-purpose by the...
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
Brazil says 'no' to Office Open XML
News Microsoft is pushing for the Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard to be fast tracked for ISO accreditation. After a very difficult and inconclusive meeting in ABNT (Brazilian Technical Standards Organization) office last Tuesday, the standards...
[August 24, 2007, 16:35]
ISO rejects national bodies' appeals against OOXML
News Andy Updegrove, whose ConsortiumInfo blog provides commentary on various standardisation processes, noted that the text of the final version of OOXML has still not been released, and pointed out that that text would be "substantially different...
[August 18, 2008, 14:18]
Microsoft boosts OOXML compatibility
News John McCreesh, an evangelist for OpenOffice.org, the main open-source competitor to the Microsoft Office productivity suite, told ZDNet UK on Wednesday that he was surprised to hear Microsoft was continuing to work on OOXML's compatibility.
[December 3, 2008, 11:11]
Microsoft to release ODF translator for Word
News The Microsoft format is called Office Open XML (OOXML), which is the default document format in the company's recently released Office 2007 suite. Novell last year said it will use the Word translator to allow users of OpenOffice, which supports...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
