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OOXML Expert: ODF Standard Is Broken
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk this week, Brown, who reported similar problems between Microsoft Office 2007 documents and the OOXML standard, said the standardised version of ODF, known as ISO/IEC 26300:2006, "has a defect which prevents any document...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
UK Standards Body Taken To Court Over OOXML
News The UK Unix & Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) said on Thursday that the British Standards Institution's (BSI's) controversial decision to vote for approval of OOXML in a recent International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ballot followed a...
[May 1, 2008, 16:34]
EC May Extend MS Antitrust Probe
Blog Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk last August, FSFE president Georg Greve said unprecedented numbers of Microsoft partner companies from several countries joined standards organisations, and voted to approve the OOXML document format as an ISO standard.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
OOXML Expert: ODF Flaws Remain
News Alex Brown, a major contributor to the progress of the ODF's Microsoft-backed rival, OOXML, within the international standards process, carried out a "smoke test" last week, which he said showed the OpenOffice open-source application suite does...
[May 6, 2008, 17:18]
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]
And The Zdnet "story" On OOXML
Talkback It will be interesting to see how zdnet will report on OOXML in Genevea. If ISO/OOXML is of interest, then read consortiuminfo.org http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php? Proprietary past looms over Microsoft OOXML hopes",
[March 2, 2008, 8:40]
Complexity Of Voting Procedure
Talkback I, along with other OpenMalaysia bloggers, maintain the OOXML voting table referenced in your article http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39373617,00.htm? We have had some reaction to this story from Ditesh Kumar, one of the OpenMalaysia...
[March 27, 2008, 9:39]
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]
Is This A 'Chewbacca Defence' Or Something?
Talkback Um, this 'OOXML expert' is the chair of the BSI committee that reversed the BSI's decision, isn't he? I don't suppose this has anything to do with the action against the BSI in the High Court: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39408917...
[May 2, 2008, 17:33]
Microsoft Moves Forward With OOXML SDK
Talkback In case you don't know--there's a new Microsoft beta of its OOXML SDK coming that could cause confusion, Peter Judge says in his blog: http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10007518o-2000469549b,00.htm.
[March 13, 2008, 10:53]
UK May Make Last-minute U-turn On OOXML
News A technical group formed to make a recommendation to the BSI's policy panel has voted five-to-one in favour of OOXML being accepted as an international standard, a source close to the process has told ZDNet.co.uk.
[March 27, 2008, 16:51]
OpenOffice May Support OOXML
News John McCreesh, the marketing lead for OpenOffice.org, the organisation behind the software, told ZDNet.co.uk that OpenOffice might have to support OOXML in future. The specification for Office Open XML (OOXML, or Open XML), was officially passed as...
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
Microsoft Office 2007 Fails OOXML Conformance Test
News In a statement sent to ZDNet.co.uk on Friday, Brown said that, although he was hopeful that Microsoft will update its Office products to stay in line with the version of OOXML approved by ISO, it is not guaranteed.
[April 21, 2008, 8:55]
Microsoft Wins Battle For OOXML Approval
News The International Organization for Standardization has officially approved Microsoft's OOXML specification as a standard. In the letter, he claimed that 80 percent of the committee had been against the OOXML standard being passed — Norway...
[April 2, 2008, 8:32]
EC Investigating Microsoft Over OOXML
News The European Commission said in January that it was exploring whether the OOXML file formats are sufficiently interoperable with competitors' products. OOXML is a technical specification that describes the inner workings of how to read and create...
[April 3, 2008, 14:12]
Websites Claim To Host Leaked OOXML Results
News Documents purporting to be leaked results of the OOXML vote have been posted on the internet. Office Open XML (OOXML) is Microsoft's "open" document specification, in competition with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) being promoted by the open-source...
[April 1, 2008, 16:44]
Critics Brand OOXML A Microsoft 'marketing Tool'
News I didn't think [OOXML] needed to be a standard; getting it that designation is like vanity-press publishing," wrote Mason on Thursday. Tim Bray, the writer of XML, wrote in his blog on Thursday that Microsoft pushed for its Office Open XML (OOXML...
[April 18, 2008, 17:00]
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]
IBM Attacks Microsoft Over SOA
News The ODF Alliance and many in the open-source community argue that OOXML is proprietary. Microsoft favours Office Open XML (OOXML), which was originally developed in-house at Microsoft. Microsoft wants OOXML to be accepted as an ISO standard.
[August 8, 2007, 13:37]
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]
