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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]
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]
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]
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]
Comment Amid anger and disbelief, it emerged this week the ISO is ratifying Microsoft's OOXML as a standard. This argument portrays ODF as clean, well structured and designed for extensibility, while OOXML is a poor foundation for the future because its...
[04 Apr 2008]
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]
News The OpenDoc Society - which had argued Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format was unripe for ratification by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - published the results showing Microsoft's win on its website.
[02 Apr 2008]
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]
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]
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]
News The software giant's bid to push Office Open XML (OOXML) through the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) fast-track process has suffered a serious setback, as OOXML failed to receive enough votes to gain approval, the ISO...
[06 Sep 2007]
News ISO certification would result in governments accepting OOXML as a recognised document format, encouraging its use to the exclusion of others. Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK, FSFE president Georg Greve said unprecedented numbers of...
[31 Aug 2007]
News It failed to gain acceptance for Office Open XML (OOXML) by the slimmest of margins. The vote was split along familiar lines: Apple, EMC, HP and Intel voted in favour of OOXML, while Sun's allies, such as Oracle and IBM, lined up against it.
[14 Aug 2007]
News Office Open XML (OOXML) was originally developed in-house at Microsoft. The company insists that OOXML, having gained certification from standards organisation Ecma International, is now an Ecma concern, and no longer a proprietary standard.
[03 Aug 2007]
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. Novell last year said it will use the Word translator to allow users of OpenOffice, which supports...
[02 Feb 2007]
News He wrote: "I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML.
[25 Jan 2007]
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