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- Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking
- Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is tickingRe:IMHO, it should get standardized as technically it's superior again anyone will argue so I'll say it's supports a superset of features than ODF and can accomodate all the features Office offers. But I doubt it will be standardized by ISO. Foolish Governments...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-28
- Open XML takes another step forward
- Open XML takes another step forwardTipping pointSince the US vote was already approval, it's a safe bet that the US continuing to approve won't change much.How is standing still a step forward?Seems to me that MS already had the US vote Sept 2, so not changing their vote by the...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- U.S. to plug Open XML as an ISO standard
- U.S. to plug Open XML as an ISO standardOpen XML is now deadThe rest of the world is severely pissed at America right now, and coming right after Bush blocked a law that would have made Torture illegal, I'm expecting the world to take a dim view of anything America...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standard
- Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standardOk..."...argue there is no need for a rival standard to the widely used Open Document Format ODF..."I don't know a single person who uses it.RE: Microsoft gets another shot at Open XML standardMicrosoft does not need a "standard" for companies to be able...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-25
- Microsoft spins OOXML loss as a win
- Microsoft lost its effort to win "fast track" approval of its OOXML which it calls Open XML Â as an international standard, but you wouldn't know that from reading much of the press coverage. Microsoft claims global support for Open XML. Microsoft reports victory in preliminary ISO...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- ISO vote on OpenXML nears
- The International Organization for Standardization ISO is voting this weekend on Microsoft's OpenXML format, which Redmond has been pushing as "open enough," as it competes with Open Document Format, which is already an international standard, Reuters reports. Opponents of OpenXML say the format is needlessly bloated -- running 6,000...
- Blog posts 2007-08-28
- Denmark to test Open XML, ODF in year-long evaluation
- More on the file format wars: Denmark will run a test of the two competing formats -- Open Document Format and Office Open XML -- over the next year, in which government agencies will be required to use both formats, InfoWorld reports.Denmark is requiring both standards for the test period...
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- Microsoft submits XPS alternative to PDF to ECMA for standardization
- Like it has done with its Open XML specification, Microsoft is pushing its XML Paper Specification XPS alternative to PDF through the standards bodies. And just like the case with Open XML, Microsoft's competitors are lining up to diss Redmond's standards moves.Even Microsoft's critics admit they don't like the "heavy-handed"...
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- Microsoft keeps the Open XML fires burning
- Speaking of what works -- and doesnt -- in community building, Microsoft launched a new community Web site on May 8, called OpenXMLCommunity.org. Microsoft is continuing to push its claim that developers and users just cant get enough of Open XML, the new file format that the company has...
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Microsoft criticized for Open XML petition
- Microsoft criticized for Open XML petitionMicrosoft criticized for Open XML petitionThis guy is not making any sense. He's upset that Microsoft is making a standard too. I thought free software was all about standards and competition and free choice and how its a good thing but now that...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-05
- Microsoft cranks up its Open XML standardization campaign
- Microsoft cranks up its Open XML standardization campaignThe way to customer choice and interoperability is a single good standard.MS only wants to create confusion and compatibility problems with a second standard, that is way to complex and ambiguous. A good document standard is not rocket science, and there is no...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- Microsoft cranks up its Open XML standardization campaign
- Now that Microsofts Office Open XML specification has entered into the official ISO five-month technical review/balloting period, company employees are encouraging Microsoft supporters to lend their support to Microsofts standardization campaign. Ecma approved Open XML as a standard in December. Open XML is an alternative to ODF, the Open...
- Blog posts 2007-04-04
- Yahoo shakeup, SAP's ecosystem, Open XML, iPhone and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the recent shakeup at Yahoo, the latest in the HPgate scandal, the substance of SAPs analyst summit, standardization of Microsofts Open XML format, and whether Apples rumored iPhone can succeed. David starts off the show talking about his ZDNet new...
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Microsoft's Open XML is now an ECMA standard
- Whats the worlds dominant software company to do when public agencies turn their backs on your proprietary Office format and adopt an open standard instead? Why, get your format declared a standard too, naturally. Thats what Microsoft has managed to do with Open XML, the format of the new Office...
- Blog posts 2006-12-07
- World premier video: Format wars yields standards hypocrisy
- After pointing out in this blog the mockery that the the International Organisation of Standardisation the ISO is making of standards setting by allowing multiple standards for the same thing, the folks who run the TV studios here at CNET Networks said let's make a video about it. ...
- Blog posts 2006-06-05
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- Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement
- For me, non-starterA crippled, incompatible, ad supported product makes little sense to me, when Open Office and Google are alternatives.ExactlyThere's already a portable version of OpenOffice that runs on a USB stick - nothing new here.The excluded formats are used in only about 1% of documentsIt is well-known that macros...
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