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Denmark Changes OOXML Vote To 'yes'
News According to a Friday statement on the website of Danish Standards (the Danish equivalent of the British Standards Institution, or BSI), the country's previous vote of "disapproval with comments" on the original draft of the OOXML standard has now...
[March 28, 2008, 14:47]
OOXML Process In Deranged Finale
Blog Denmark has changed its vote from No to Yes. There's an unpleasant whiff emanating from Poland's Yes vote. Catching my breath, I thought it might be worthwhile to recap a bit on the insane flurry of updates coming through about the ISO votes on...
[March 28, 2008, 15:59]
Handsets Hold Key To Vivendi Vote 'piracy'
News An alleged episode of vote 'piracy' at the Vivendi Universal general meeting is to be investigated by the Tribunal de Commerce de Paris, the body that presides over corporate legal disputes in France.
[May 8, 2002, 15:56]
Details Emerge Of 'shocking' OOXML Meeting
News Denmark has made a last-minute switch to approve Office Open XML (OOXML), while the British Standards Institution (BSI) has been advised by a technical committee to change its vote to "yes". The site links to the original meeting notes, and also...
[March 28, 2008, 15:56]
ICANN To Vote On Internationalised Domain Names
News The organisation that manages the world's most important web address extensions — what goes after the dot in a URL — is to hold a vote on Thursday that could see an entire new generation of URLs made possible.
[June 23, 2008, 17:44]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog Comment Polish NB Chairwoman has changed the voting rules for the email ballot to "If you don't vote, it is counted as a YES", and she has threatened to sue committee members if they spread accusations http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49455/polish...
[March 30, 2008, 16:52]
OOXML Clears ISO Voting
Blog Comment Polish NB Chairwoman has changed the voting rules for the email ballot to "If you don't vote, it is counted as a YES", and she has threatened to sue committee members if they spread accusations http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-49455/polish...
[March 30, 2008, 16:39]
EC Investigating Microsoft Over OOXML
News Specifically, the Commission sought information on attempts to influence the debate or vote over the standards proposal. The head of the committee established to form Norway's position on OOXML wrote a letter to the ISO, complaining that the...
[April 3, 2008, 14:12]
Venezuela And India Appeal OOXML Ratification
News OSL] hereby lodges a formal complaint to ISO over the certification process after the meetings in Dansk Standard's committee S-445 (former S-142/U34) as well as the decision to change the Danish vote to a yes in connection with the processing of...
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
ISO Rejects Microsoft OOXML
News ISO procedures demand that a specification must receive a "Yes" vote from at least two-thirds of JTC1 to gain approval. Microsoft has sought to influence the vote in some countries by encouraging its partners to join the voting bodies shortly...
[September 5, 2007, 13:32]
EU Parliament Forgives Council For Adopting Patent Directive
Talkback Vote NO to the European Constitution. Vote yes for Eurosceptic parties in national elections. This zdnet article speaks for itself, regarding the conduct of the EU bodies. The pro-jobs, pro-IT, anti-software-patent groups better start making a Plan...
[March 31, 2005, 21:20]
Government IT Still In Dire Straits
Talkback I vote YES: publication of Gateway review reports. The sooner this goes out into public debate the better. In fact, more countries should do that. After all, it's tax money being spend here and those (the public) that funded it are entitled to be...
[July 5, 2005, 21:32]
Microsoft OOXML Debacle Continues
News The Swedish Standards Institute has decided to invalidate its Microsoft Office Open XML vote after it found that one of the participants had voted more than once. The Swedish Standards Institute (SIS) declared its vote invalid after it revealed on...
[August 31, 2007, 12:22]
New Zealand OOXML Rejection 'not Final'
News New Zealand has rejected Microsoft's proposal to fast track its Office Open XML document format as an ISO standard, but it may change its vote if certain concerns are addressed. If the comments are resolved we will have an opportunity to change New...
[September 3, 2007, 8:54]
New Zealand OOXML Rejection 'not Final'
Talkback Sounds like M$ will have to "donate" more money to New Zealand to get a yes vote.
[September 3, 2007, 13:51]
Software Patent Directive Adopted
Talkback And to think I *was* going to vote yes in the European constitution. With one hand they fine Microsoft 0.5 billion pounds.with the other they give them the means to make 500 billion pounds.
[March 7, 2005, 10:42]
ISO Lost All Credibility
Talkback ISO allowed the working group to be stacked, just one week before the first vote in September 2007. Countries with no capacity to make any contribution, simply voted Yes. Here are some countries from the list of shame (Participating members with...
[April 14, 2008, 14:59]
UK Unix Users Seek Funding To Pursue OOXML Fight
News At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) applied for a judicial review of the British Standards Institution's (BSI's) decision to vote 'yes' in an international vote on whether to standardise Office Open XML (OOXML).
[June 19, 2008, 14:22]
A Year Ago: Sun Wins Round One Of Java Fight
News The vote represents a defeat for Microsoft Corp.which lobbied hard against Sun becoming what's known as a "Publicly Available Submitter. Microsoft general manager of developer relations Tod Nielsen -- who last week said he expected a 'Yes with...
[November 18, 1998, 6:24]
Hungary Abstains From OOXML Vote
News The Hungarian minister for economy and transport, Janos Koka, sent a letter to the MSZT that said: "I find it disturbing that before the meeting the secretary of the committee announced that instead of the normal two-thirds majority, a 50 percent...
[September 4, 2007, 15:14]
