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RSS iec in newsOasis forms ODF support committee
News ISO/IEC standards have to be managed and published by ISO/IEC committees even if they are created elsewhere, Brown said. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (Oasis)... [05 Nov 2008]
IBM warns ISO to shape up
News The company has published the recommendations from its discussion, including a call for "review and pervasive reform" of the directives and processes of ISO's IT standards arm, ISO/IEC JTC1, and the spokesman said: "We... [24 Sep 2008]
ISO rejects latest OOXML appeals
News According to a statement late last week from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), "none of the appeals… received the support for further processing of two-thirds of the members of the ISO Technical Management Board... [19 Aug 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News A Microsoft spokesperson said: "We already substantially support IS29500 [the Open XML specification that was recently approved by ISO/IEC members] in Office 2007 and we've announced our plans to update that support in... [23 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Brown said in a blog post: "Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to ISO/IEC 29500," recounting the process of testing a document against the "strict" and "transitional"... [21 Apr 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News Mason continued: "My biggest complaint about the thing wasn't that [ISO/IEC] 29500 shouldn't have been a standard but that it was a lousy piece of writing. However, now Microsoft OOXML has been ratified as an... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft's OOXML fails to get ISO stamp
News National standards bodies from 104 countries have been casting votes over the past five months to decide whether OOXML should receive ISO certification, including standards bodies from 41 countries that participate in... [06 Sep 2007]
FSF slams Microsoft OOXML standards vote tactics
News Robertson said: "Microsoft corporate policy expressly forbids financial support, of any kind, to third parties for their participation as a member of a national body voting on the ISO/IEC standardisation of Open XML. [31 Aug 2007]
EC dithers over OpenDocument approval
News Last Tuesday, members of the ISO and the IEC ratified the file format. Microsoft.has introduced its Office Open XML specifications into an ECMA standardisation process, also headed for consideration by... [08 May 2006]
Biometric standards for ID cards unveiled
News The BS ISO/IEC 19794 series of standards cover the science of using "biological properties" to identify individuals, such as fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition. New international standards on biometric... [26 Aug 2005]
