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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]
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]
EC May Extend MS Antitrust Probe
Blog Now it seems the EC may add a third strand to its antitrust investigations, concerning Office Open XML (OOXML). However, FSFE accused Microsoft of "stuffing the ballot boxes" in the votes designed to establish Office Open XML as a recognised...
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
OOXML Expert: ODF Standard Is Broken
News Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of the process to standardise Office Open XML (OOXML), posted a blog this week reporting the results of tests which he claims reveal that OpenOffice documents do not conform to the International...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
Shuttleworth Distances Himself From Microsoft
News In the same blog post, Shuttleworth said pursuing technical interoperability between rival document formats Office Open XML and OpenDocument — included in the other Linux deals — was not worth the effort.
[June 19, 2007, 19:27]
MandrakeSoft Clears Up Downloads Confusion
News Version 6.0 includes significant improvements over version 5.2, such as an XML-based file format, improved file filters, support for OLE objects and a redesigned user interface. StarOffice is Sun Microsystems' alternative to the dominant Microsoft...
[March 26, 2002, 12:43]
OpenOffice May Support OOXML
News OpenOffice may support Microsoft's Office Open XML standard in future, but the organisation behind the open source productivity suite anticipates that everyone including Microsoft will have "difficulty" in making the format work.
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
OpenOffice.org Dismisses Pro-OOXML Report
News OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format. The two most prominent examples of XML-based document standards are the...
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
OOXML Expert: ODF Flaws Remain
News Consequently, there are no XML documents in existence which are valid to ISO ODF. The point of the test is to see how far adrift they are," Brown said to ZDNet.co.uk. IDs and IDREFs can't include ambiguity," he told ZDNet.co.uk.
[May 6, 2008, 17:18]
Microsoft's OOXML Limps Through ISO Meeting
News Both define ways to encode tagged information in documents using the Extensible Markup Language (XML). Tim Bray, one of the original creators of the XML specification on which OOXML is founded, and a Canadian delegate for ISO, suggested ISO should...
[March 4, 2008, 15:21]
Microsoft Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Test
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization, according to tests run by a document standards specialist.
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
EC Investigating Microsoft Over OOXML
News European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to get the Office Open XML file formats standardised. In a letter seen by ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com, European...
[April 3, 2008, 14:12]
Critics Brand OOXML A Microsoft 'marketing Tool'
News The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization committee chair have both claimed that Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML accredited as an international standard in order to forward the company's...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
IBM Attacks Microsoft Over SOA
News Microsoft favours Office Open XML (OOXML), which was originally developed in-house at Microsoft. Mills claimed there is a "big difference" between IBM and Microsoft's approaches, saying that, in contrast to Microsoft, IBM uses open standards for...
[August 8, 2007, 13:37]
Websites Claim To Host Leaked OOXML Results
News Office Open XML (OOXML) is Microsoft's "open" document specification, in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) being promoted by the open-source community and companies including IBM and Sun.
[April 1, 2008, 16:44]
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]
OOXML: ISO Says 'No' For Now
Blog Microsoft Office Open XML has failed to gain enough votes to become an ISO standard, according to the International Organisation for Standardisation. Full story coming up on ZDNet.co.uk news. Microsoft failed to reach two specific milestones: it...
[September 5, 2007, 10:18]
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]
BSI Silent On OOXML Vote Result
News The British Standards Institution has sent its response to the International Organization for Standardization on the subject of whether Microsoft Office Open XML should be certified with the ISO, but has refused to say whether it voted "yes", "no...
[September 4, 2007, 10:13]
Turning Over A New Leaf At Quark
News There are over 160 new features between 6.0 and 7.0, which include elements such as the workflow support that I mentioned earlier and enhanced XML support for content sharing. The DPA approach we have detailed is based on the reality of modern...
[March 25, 2008, 13:49]
