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- Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote
- Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML voteAsk any lawyer[i]Ultimate question: Now that three formal appeals have been filed, is the Joint Technical Committee going to take them seriously?[/i]Well, we can start by asking "what happens if they don't?" We can look in the Directives for answers there, for instance...
- Tags: ISO standards, Office Open XML, ISO, anti-MS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Brazil, India, South Africa protest OOXML vote
- Brazil, India and South Africa have filed appeals to the ISO/IEC approval of Microsoft's OOXML. At the Standards Blog, Andy Updegrove outlines some of the issues: Brazil's objections fall under two main headings, the second of which was also raised by South Africa. That...
- Tags: Brazil, Appeal, South Africa, Office Open XML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-30
- 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...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Sanity, Microsoft Corp., OOXML
- Discussion threads 2008-04-01
- Microsoft wasting no time rejoicing in its OOXML win
- Like it or not, Microsoft's OOXML – 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,...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), XML, Iso standards, Microsoft Office, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Quality, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Still no word: ISO to announce results of OOXML vote Wednesday
- The International Standards Organization won't make an official announcement about whether Office Open XML OOXML will be a standard until Wednesday -- and perhaps for good reason. Final voting and reporting on the proposal was expected Monday but the ISO said it decided to hold...
- Tags: Irregularity, ISO, Norway, OOXML, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- 'Scandal' over Norway's vote for OOXML
- We hear stories of "voting irregularities" around the world, not least of all right hear in the USA, but surely the ISO is different. No? The Register reports that delegates have been "complaining loudly about alleged heavy-handed tactics and misdeeds in the voting process" on Microsoft's OOXML standard. ...
- Tags: ISO, Norway, Committee, OOXML, Register, Iso standards, Process Improvement, Quality, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybe
- Microsoft's OOXML gets ISO approval ... maybeFraud and corruption is the new International standard.Congratulations Microsoft for absolutely nothing of value, and enjoy the backlash ;-)Interesting language"[i]Microsoft maintains that Office dominates on the desktop worldwide and that OOXML is a de facto standard anyway[/i]"In other words, MS thinks that whatever they...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, German Standard, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., ISO, Microsoft Office, irregularity, Microsoft OOXML
- Discussion threads 2008-03-31
- U.K. may make last-minute U-turn on OOXML
- U.K. may make last-minute U-turn on OOXMLExcept ...Kenya has apparently changed from "approve" to "abstain" and a few others appear to be in the wind. That includes Cuba, who complains that their previous vote was "disapprove" but was recorded as "approve." This time they're trying to take no...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Kenya, OOXML, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- Why Windows 7 might go to pieces
- There are a growing number of clues that Windows 7 -- the next version of Windows about which Microsoft continues to remain mum -- could be available in pieces. By "pieces," I mean a couple of different things: 1. Delivered in a role-based fashion,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- 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...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Durusau, Fast Track, ISO, OOXML, Open XML, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- U.S. to plug Open XML as an ISO standard
- The United States is likely to recommend Microsoft's Open XML standard as an international standard. News.com's Martin LaMonica reports: Two members of the technical committee tasked with setting the national position on a pivotal vote said the States will retain its...
- Tags: Wish, ISO, Durusau, Iso standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Process Improvement, XML, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- BPEL4People advances toward the mainstream
- BPEL Business Process Execution Language is too machine-oriented, catering to applications talking to other applications, they say. Most business processes need the human touch somewhere along the line. Do people need BPEL4People? Consider these un-automatable scenarios: A process may need an executive's approval to...
- Tags: Business Process, BPEL, Workflow, OASIS, Bottom Line, BPEL4People, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Web Services, Business Operations, It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Expect+OpenXML+win+for+Microsoft+at+ISO
- Expect+OpenXML+win+for+Microsoft+at+ISOMany standards are owned by someone.I don't undersand some people stand on this issue. When it comes to office automation, Microsoft is the dominant player. Yeah, we've got all Open Offices and Google apps and the like, but they are insignificant compared to Office. A standard that...
- Tags: OOA/OOD/OOP, OPEN SOURCE, Adobe PDF, OOXML, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- Warning: This post for ultra-techie green techies
- The Green Grid Technical Committee is getting set to release more technical information this week aimed at helping IT managers get a better handle on their energy use. The information will be debated during the Green Technical Forum and members' meeting Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 in San Francisco. ...
- Tags: Data Center, Member, Green Grid Technical Committee, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-02-04
- With tech titan support, Green Grid to help datacenters go green with measurement standards
- With so many tech vendors claiming their solutions to be green and looking for a leg up with customers wanting to be more power efficient with everything from their servers right up to their entire datacenters, one big problem in the industry is a lack of standards on how "green"...
- Tags: Data Center, Consortium, Grid, Standards, Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'
- When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...
- Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- 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...
- Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-16
- Green Grid tech committee updates data center efficiency info
- Want a recipe for a more efficient data center? Well, if you're a member of Green Grid, the consortium is releasing several white papers from its technical committee that outline certain configurations that could helpl and provide guidelines/benchmarks for efficiency metrics. The three papers are: -...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Microsoft details search changes coming in Vista Service Pack 1
- Microsoft published to its Web site over the past few days documentation that details changes the company is making to its built-in Vista search functionality that will be introduced with Windows Vista Service Pack SP 1. Developers will be exposed to these changes for the first time...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- 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...
- Tags: Standards, OOXML, ODF, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
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