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- Why Flash and Silverlight will save the web
- Flash and Silverlight are viewed in some circles as undermining a free and open Internet. The truth, however, is that both technologies are part of the process by which we map out a problem domain sufficiently, laying the groundwork for standardization committees of the future. Deviation from standards,...
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
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- Is your supply chain gonna kill you?
- Jason Busch has an excellent post: Friday Rant: Beyond SarbOx -- Waiting for the Big One to Hit . I'm betting few people want to talk about this particular hot potato. Please don't choke on your early morning coffee. He says: Then as now [when SarbOx was enacted], companies...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Grid and Cloud Computing Technology: Interoperability and Standardization for the Telecommunications Industry
- The European Telecommunications Standards Institute formed the Grid Technical Committee TC GRID in 2006 with participation from over 20 organizations spanning private sector, government, and academia. It had a specific mandate to address the convergence of the IT and Telecommunications industries in particular in the domain of interoperability. Grid computing,...
- White papers 2009-05-25
- It's official: OOXML is a standard
- Surprised? Here's the full release from ISO: The two ISO and IEC technical boards have given the go-ahead to publish ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology â€" Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard after appeals by four national standards bodies against the...
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Open letter to a school committee member
- A bit of background before I pass on this letter that I wrote to a member of our school committee this morning...Our district has been without a technology-director type for many years now. While we have good staff handling individual schools, coordinating and managing the use of technology district-wide...
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- 6 reasons government IT projects fail
- 6 reasons government IT projects failContradictory demandsThe complexity of a government project can arise not only from the ordicary technical problems, but from frequently observed situations.The simplest example is a data item which has different definitions and neither can be eliminated because each comes from a higher level of government....
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Office to support ODF, PDF as 'first-class citizens'
- Office to support ODF, PDF as 'first-class citizens'I applaud the embracingBut I'll reserve judgment until we have an idea as to whether they plan on extending.Details, devil, all thatBesides being unable to set ODF support as the default (a deal-breaker for a lot of governments) I wonder what else Microsoft...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- U.K. standards body taken to court over OOXML
- Group launches court challenge against decision by British Standards Institution to approve Microsoft's nascent document format. 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...
- News items 2008-05-01
- Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
- Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance testYes Microsoft said this months agoThey have not yet changed Office to keep up with spec changes negotiated during the ISO standardization process. They have long ago made announcements regarding this and their plans for bringing it into compliance.I can't decide which was more...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- EU investigating OOXML vote
- The EU is investigating Microsoft's handling of the OOXML vote, in which Microsoft's problem-ridden format was approved by the ISO, CNET reports. In an ongoing investigation, the EU checked in with several European countries where there were allegations of irregularities. In...
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML winLong live the Microsoft Zimbabwe standardIn recognition of ISO adoption of IS 29500 it will hence forth be formally known ans the Zimbabwe stand.Microsoft vote riggers sorry I mean keen standards followers were quoted as saying "we learnt all about ballot...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win
- Like it or not, Microsoft’s OOXML â€" now known as IS 29500 -- has received the proper number of votes to become an ISO standard. And the Redmond, Washington company is wasting no time rejoicing the turnaround win. In his blog today, Jason Matusow,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- U.K. may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
- Microsoft's Office Open XML may win last-minute favor from a key British standards body, but Microsoft would need more votes to change before OOXML becomes a standard. The British Standards Institution could change sides, days before voting closes, and register a vote in favor of Microsoft's Office Open...
- News items 2008-03-27
- Will IE 8 break the Web?
- Will IE 8 break the Web?It's an opportunity for the money puppetswho write IE only sites to re-screw their customers and charge hundreds to add appropriate headers to their sites.RE: Will IE 8 break the Web?I think they originally didn't want to "break the web" because it would make IE...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- 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
- 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 accused of stacking ISO committee
- Microsoft's strong-arming of the ISO process regarding Open XML, the proprietary format of Microsoft Office, may be destroying its legitimacy. (Picture from the IS-Thought Group.) In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on WG1, which is handling Microsoft's application to make...
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- Why Microsoft hates Google's Android
- Richard Monson-Haefel, an analyst at the Burton group, just posted a sarcastic and inaccurate analysis of Android on the company's blog. In his article, called "Why Microsoft Loves Google's Android", Monson-Haefel claims that Microsoft should be "secretly celebrating" Google's introduction of Android. "Android is perhaps the best thing to happen...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future
- I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
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