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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]
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]
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). Open XML is becoming one of the most widely utilised document format standards. Government agencies and national standards bodies have...
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
Microsoft Exec Talks Patent Politics
News There are some people saying: "Only ODF should be allowed as a standard", which effectively precludes any other open document file formats, including Open XML. I could see the argument if we hadn't submitted [Open XML] to a standards body, because...
[May 25, 2007, 17:13]
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]
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]
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. For all your GNU/Linux and open source news, from the latest kernel...
[March 26, 2002, 12:43]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Microsoft President Will Proceed With Asian Visit
News Belluzzo is slated to open Microsoft's first XML Web services centre in Singapore on Monday. The S$5m facility will offer the capability to test, share and learn best practices in developing XML Web services under one roof.
[September 12, 2001, 12:39]
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]
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]
3D Web Standards Move Closer
News The technology is a descendant, expressed in XML (Extensible Markup Language), of the pioneering but ultimately unsuccessful Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML). More enterprise IT news in ZDNet UK's Tech Update Channel.
[July 24, 2002, 11:25]
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]
