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White Paper The PSC developers created an OOXML solution that has the ability to build stand-alone applications that can access the contents of documents logically, without actually having to know the ins and outs of the format itself. [08 Nov 2008]
Oasis forms ODF support committee
News It alleged that ISO's SC34 committee, which oversees the development of Microsoft's rival OOXML format, was "tilted by Microsoft employees". The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards... [05 Nov 2008]
IBM warns ISO to shape up
News IBM has issued a warning to international standards body ISO in the wake of its approval of Microsoft's OOXML. The IBM-led discussion began in the aftermath of the approval of Microsoft Office Open XML... [24 Sep 2008]
Microsoft interoperability makes "substantial progress" in schools
News He asked: "If not for the stance of Neelie Kroes and the European Commission, if not for the OOXML roadshow and the ISO controversy, if not for Becta's OFT complaint, does anyone believe this would happen? [17 Sep 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News The appeals were made by Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela, and generally centred on perceived improprieties in the Office Open XML (OOXML) voting process, along with unresolved technical issues. [19 Aug 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Speaking at a panel debate, at a Red Hat conference in Boston, entitled 'The OOXML battle: Who really won? Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee admitted that the company had no specific department or... [24 Jun 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News At the end of April, the UK Unix and Open Systems User Group (UKUUG) applied for a judicial review of the British Standards Institution's (BSI's) decision to vote 'yes' in an international vote on whether to standardise Office Open XML... [23 Jun 2008]
EC pledges open standards support
News The Commission also said earlier this year it would investigate allegations about Microsoft's behaviour, including allegations of rigged voting during International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) accreditation for Microsoft... [12 Jun 2008]
IBM sings a Symphony to rival Office
News Also, Microsoft Office's native OOXML format has been accepted for international standardisation but the standardised version will not be included in Office until its next version. IBM has launched a commercially... [09 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues. The company now says OOXML support would require substantially more work. [23 May 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News However, at the start of this year the Commission began its own investigation into Microsoft's interoperability issues, an investigation that has since expanded to take in questions over how Microsoft may have used its dominance in the... [14 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News 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 (OOXML) document format. [02 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News In a blog posting this week, Alex Brown, leader of the ISO group in charge of maintaining the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard, revealed Microsoft Office 2007 documents do not meet the latest specifications of the ISO... [21 Apr 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News The developer of XML and a former International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee chair have both claimed Microsoft was interested in having Office Open XML (OOXML) accredited as an international standard... [21 Apr 2008]
OOXML standard: ISO calls for end to 'personal attacks'
News The move came as an ISO committee meeting in Norway attracted protesters, who gathered to call for the retraction of Open Office XML (OOXML) from the ISO standardisation process. Many observers had been against that... [15 Apr 2008]
