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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 individuals focused solely on... [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 (OOXML). [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 Office Open XML... [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 supported version of its Lotus... [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 sector to... [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 OOXML draft standard. [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 in order to forward the... [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 standardisation, pointing out... [15 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News The European Commission said in January it was exploring whether the OOXML file formats are sufficiently interoperable with competitors' products. OOXML is a technical specification that describes the inner workings of how to read and create... [04 Apr 2008]
OOXML standard on a knife-edge
News If the BSI registers a vote in favour, Office Open XML (OOXML) would pass one of two criteria to becoming a standard, but fail the other. A technical group formed to make a recommendation to the BSI's policy panel has voted five-to-one in favour of... [28 Mar 2008]
Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency
News Hardie also explained Office 2007 is not recommended for schools as there are interoperability issues between Microsoft's latest file format, OOXML, and the open file format ODF, making it difficult for users to switch between platforms. [10 Jan 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 certification in September. [29 Oct 2007]
