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- Huh? PDF standardization decision has nothing to do with Microsoft?
- Huh? PDF standardization decision has nothing to do with Microsoft?MS might have something to do with it......but since PDF is widely implemented by developers other than Adobe and there's little or nothing Adobe can do to reverse this, even if they wanted to, it makes sense for them to at...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
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- The company people want Microsoft to be
- The recent announcements regarding Microsoft's plans to include native support for ODF and PDF as part of Office 2007 SP2 was certainly unexpected. They had just managed to get OXML ratified by ISO, a move that was clearly aimed to counter a format that had benefited from its decision to...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gap
- EU shows size of Microsoft credibility gapBlimey.[i]The European Union will investigate Microsoft's support for the Open Document Format ODF in Office.[/i]If the Commission decides that Office support of ODF doesn't increase customer choice, that would imply that they potentially might prevent Microsoft from supporting this ISO standard?At the same time,...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- OXML as Microsoft's swivel point
- My apologies for not writing more this week. A rather interesting twist in my IT career occurred recently, which I'll relate later. It's exciting stuff which will involve lots of travel to rarely-visited parts of the world (well, rarely visited by me). But enough of that. I...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Open XML takes another step forward
- Looks like Microsoft’s OOXML is continuing its march towards approval. Doug Mahugh of Microsoft posted Friday that: "I and the other members of the US delegation to the BRM ... are recommending that the US maintain its Approve position on DIS 29500. The next step will be for the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Critics urge rejection of Microsoft 'open' format
- Critics urge rejection of Microsoft 'open' formatwe demand the rejection of the M$ 'open' formatbloated, proprietary and incompatible with OSS, that's enough to vote a big NO on it.Microsoft to lose the ISO ballot in a close voteI hope someone is monitoring the vote process. This is important. Competitive bids...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- Microsoft’s 4th of July Trans-Atlantic assault on document standards
- On what is normally a slow period for news, Microsoft launched a concerted campaign to displace ODF and PDF as document access and retention standards on both sides of the Atlantic. Microsoft has proposed and lobbied for OOXML as an alternative to ODF and XPS as an alternative to Adobe’s...
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- Huh? PDF standardization decision has nothing to do with Microsoft?
- Its only Monday. But this statement gets my vote for quote of the week: Adobes decisiont to submit PDF 1.7 for ISO standardization "does not, Director of Product Management Sarah Rosenbaum asserted, have anything to do with Microsofts PDF competitor: the Metro format, aka XPS XML Paper Specification print...
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Massachusetts says it's open to multiple formats
- Massachusetts says it's open to multiple formatsWell, Massachusettes really has drawn a lot of atention to document formatsThis is all very healthy. Hopefully this will lead to continuing debates and knowledge of the importance of document formats. Microsoft would rather that we nobody thought about document formats.Another thing, Microsoft would...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
- Microsoft's standardization move divides experts
- Microsoft's standardization move divides expertsAnyone Surprise By Mr. BarnettAll one has to do is check out his company's web site @http://www.ovum.com/about/clients/To realize M$ is missing. Typical dribble from M$ haters. I'm sure Gary made the same comment about M$ CLI submission as a standard to ECMA almost four...
- Discussion threads 2005-11-22
- Democracy and standards
- David Berlind recently completed an interesting in-depth analysis of the events that led to Massachusetts decision to jettison Office XML from its approved list of document standards. Assuming the decision stands, this will affect a lot of people besides workers at government agencies. Contractors that work for the state...
- Blog posts 2005-10-17
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