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OOXML Expert: ODF Standard Is Broken
News The International Organization for Standardization's OpenDocument Format standard is broken and needs to be mended, according to an expert who claims to have carried out tests on the format. Alex Brown, a document-format expert who is convenor of...
[May 2, 2008, 15:47]
EC May Extend MS Antitrust Probe
Blog There were allegations last August that Microsoft attempted to push its OOXML standard through various national bodies to achieve fast track International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification, by rigging the voting procedures.
[February 8, 2008, 15:59]
OOXML Expert: ODF Flaws Remain
News Alex Brown has a problem," responded Rob Weir of IBM, who works on ODF at Oasis, the group that submitted ODF to ISO (the International Organization for Standardization). The point of the test is to see how far adrift they are," Brown said to ZDNet...
[May 6, 2008, 17:18]
Microsoft's OOXML Limps Through ISO Meeting
News Last week saw 100 delegates from 32 countries meet to discuss how to improve the OOXML specification to bring it up to the level required by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). After it was rejected by a vote in the...
[March 4, 2008, 15:21]
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 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]
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]
Microsoft Wins Battle For OOXML Approval
News The International Organization for Standardization has officially approved Microsoft's OOXML specification as a standard. However, a spokesperson for Standard Norge told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday that the organisation had not made a formal appeal to...
[April 2, 2008, 8:32]
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]
EC Investigating Microsoft Over OOXML
News On Wednesday, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) announced that OOXML had received enough for votes for it to be ratified as a standard. In a letter seen by ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com, European regulators raised...
[April 3, 2008, 14:12]
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]
OpenOffice May Support OOXML
News The specification for Office Open XML (OOXML, or Open XML), was officially passed as fit-for-purpose by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on Wednesday, despite many allegations of improper practice in the voting process.
[April 2, 2008, 16:11]
Websites Claim To Host Leaked OOXML Results
News The documents appear to confirm that Microsoft's nascent document format has been approved as an official standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO spokesperson Roger Frost refused to comment on the leaked documents...
[April 1, 2008, 16:44]
3D Web Standards Move Closer
News The consortium plans to submit the specification to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in October. More enterprise IT news in ZDNet UK's Tech Update Channel. X3D co-editor and W3DC vice president Tony Parisi said the...
[July 24, 2002, 11:25]
OpenOffice.org Dismisses Pro-OOXML Report
News However, it is yet to be ratified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and its semi-successful passage through various nations' standards committees has been marred by accusations of voting irregularities.
[January 17, 2008, 11:28]
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]
Speedy Net Video Codec Done, But Late
News The standard was developed by the Joint Video Team (JVT), a joint effort between the Video Coding Experts Group within the ITU and the Moving Pictures Experts Group, a working group of the International Organization for Standardization...
[December 19, 2002, 11:00]
ISO Approval 'unlikely For Microsoft Open XML'
News The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is unlikely to adopt Microsoft Office Open XML format, now that it has approved the OpenDocument Format (ODF), according to analyst group Gartner.
[May 16, 2006, 12:55]
EU Passports Get Biometric Data
News Workgroups of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) will be meeting in London next week to discuss the key issues of the project, which include achieving international...
[July 18, 2003, 15:27]
Oasis Sets Out Stall On Web Procurement
News Our first priority will be to develop a comprehensive framework for electronic procurement standards, relating existing specifications to those in development," Terri Tracey, chair of the Oasis Electronic Procurement Standardization (EPS...
[April 29, 2003, 10:17]
