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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". As part of this, it will compile a body of ODF interoperability test... [05 Nov 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News A High Court judge threw out the application on 5 June but UKUUG is now set to appeal that decision, claiming that unresolved flaws in the OOXML specification threaten the long-term readability of... [23 Jun 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Following controversy over Microsoft's conduct in pushing through OOXML as an ISO document standard, the Commission announced it would probe OOXML as part of its ongoing antitrust... [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 He said: "If you're talking about reading documents in one or two hundred years' time, you would have great problems in doing it [with documents based on OOXML]. The British Standards... [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... [21 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News OOXML is a technical specification that describes the inner workings of how to read and create Microsoft Office documents. The European Commission said in January it was exploring whether the... [04 Apr 2008]
South Africa plumps for Open Documents
News It is an international standard recognised by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), and a rival to Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) specification. OOXML failed to achieve ISO... [29 Oct 2007]
FSF slams Microsoft OOXML standards vote tactics
News Greve added that OOXML, although purporting to be an open standard, in fact contained proprietary components, while an example of the specification not being up to scratch was that it gave rounding errors when... [31 Aug 2007]
Massachusetts opts for open docs 'third way'
News At the beginning of July, Massachusetts proposed using both ODF, which is an open International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certified standard, and OOXML as office document formats. Office... [03 Aug 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News The Microsoft format is called Office Open XML (OOXML), which is the default document format in the company's recently released Office 2007 suite. Microsoft, meanwhile, has standardised the... [02 Feb 2007]
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