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Coalitions form for new wireless war
News The wireless industry is just about to launch the 802.11n high-speed network standardisation process, but some participants are already anticipating an ugly fight. However, she was pessimistic about the outcome of the standardisation process...
[July 6, 2004, 17:30]
Sun wants 'expert' feedback on Java standard
News Java steward Sun Microsystems is proposing changes to the Java standardisation process to create greater visibility and participation. There are 28 companies that are involved developing changes to the standardisation process.
[May 23, 2003, 15:39]
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]
Web services unite Sun and Oracle
News Next Friday a technical committee at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis) will convene to discuss the standardisation of the Web services Business Process Execution Language (BPEL).
[May 9, 2003, 12:24]
OOXML ratification faces delay after objection
News As it turned out, Microsoft's victory in the standardisation process has proved to be an impediment to its own adoption of OOXML, which is now no longer controlled by Redmond. The official standardisation of Microsoft's Office Open XML document...
[May 27, 2008, 13:54]
Microsoft criticised for Open XML petition
News The petition, which was uploaded to Microsoft's UK site on 29 March, asks businesses to show their support for the Open XML format being fast-tracked through the standardisation process at the International Organization for Standardisation (ISO).
[April 5, 2007, 14:12]
IBM, BEA brew up Java strategy
News IBM and BEA will submit the specifications to the industrywide Java standardisation effort, called the Java Community Process, and will make the guidelines available to other companies without charging royalties, the companies said.
[November 25, 2003, 15:30]
ISO rejects national bodies' appeals against OOXML
News ISO's statement acknowledged the "significant debate" that has surrounded OOXML's passage through the standardisation process, and said experiences from that process would "provide important input to ISO and IEC and their respective national...
[August 18, 2008, 14:18]
EC investigating Microsoft over OOXML
News In a letter seen by ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com, European regulators raised queries with the national standards body in Norway to gain details into the local standardisation process. For example, an employee from Google, which opposed...
[April 3, 2008, 14:12]
Microsoft blogger defends standards expertise
Blog We found ourselves so far down the path of the standardisation process with no knowledge. At the end of the day, my role as a reporter is to report what was said - and a Microsoft spokesperson did say that the company "found ourselves so far down...
[July 1, 2008, 10:46]
Linux standard gets stamp of approval
News The certification programme is aimed at developers, software vendors and Linux distributions alike, and is designed to allow customers to easily identify software that has gone through the standardisation process.
[July 2, 2002, 13:48]
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News The standardisation process is about finding solutions, and the onus is on consensus. Jesper Jerlang, the director of standardisation for Dansk Standard, the official Danish national standards body, told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday that Dansk Standard...
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
Is Java's future Cloudy?
Blog In those days, Java wasn't open source and Sun wasn't in the process of being acquired by a company whose open source credentials are in doubt, so if that standardisation was important then, it's doubly important now.
[June 3, 2009, 10:32]
Adobe seeks formal standardisation for PDF
News Microsoft is in the process of gaining ISO standardisation for the document formats in the latest version of Office. ISO is expected to form a PDF standardisation technical committee with representatives from businesses and customers, including...
[January 29, 2007, 7:59]
EC reluctant to recommend OpenDocument
News Microsoft.has introduced its Office Open XML specifications into an ECMA standardisation process, also headed for consideration by ISO/IEC," he said. But a month after Held made this statement, Microsoft announced that it was submitting its Office...
[May 8, 2006, 11:05]
Intel hangs mesh hopes on 802.11s
News The standardisation process is expected to produce a firm proposal towards the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007, with ratification following a year later. Although some recent wireless standardisation efforts have had problems due to entrenched...
[March 3, 2005, 15:25]
ISO endorses OpenDocument standard
News Members of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) ratified the file format standard with no opposition among the 31 votes. Microsoft, however, is not supporting OpenDocument...
[May 4, 2006, 13:30]
Microsoft to release ODF translator for Word
News Adobe Systems, too, said last week that it intends to submit the full Portable Document Format, or PDF, to ISO for standardisation. Now it is seeking to block its ISO standardisation as well, said Tom Robertson, Microsoft's general manager of...
[February 2, 2007, 8:34]
Microsoft accused of rigging OOXML votes
News Microsoft corporate policy expressly forbids financial support, of any kind, to third parties for their participation as a member of a national body voting on the ISO/IEC standardisation of Open XML. A broad variety of customers, technology...
[August 30, 2007, 16:27]
IBM spearheads drive for smoother software configuration
News The goal of the standardisation effort is to drive adoption of the Solution Installation for Autonomic Computing format broadly in the industry, said David Bartlett, the director of autonomic computing at IBM.
[July 16, 2004, 9:15]
