standards iso
RSS standards isoDraft Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture
White Paper IEEE Std 802-2001, IEEE Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Overview and Architecture, provides an overview to the family of IEEE 802 Standards, defines compliance with the family of IEEE 802 Standards, describes the relationship of the IEEE 802... [18 Jul 2008]
OOXML - Microsoft admits to standards naivety
News Microsoft national technology officer Stuart McKee admitted that the company had no specific department or individuals focused solely on standards prior to beginning the process of fast-tracking Office Open XML (OOXML) to become officially... [24 Jun 2008]
Open source group fights OOXML standard
News The international ballot took place at the end of March, under the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). OOXML won enough votes to be accepted as an ISO standard but that process has now been stalled after four... [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]
Floating Point Calculations and the ANSI C, C++, and Fortran Standard
White Paper A number of optimizations involve transformations including: evaluation of constant expressions at compile time, hoisting invariant expressions out of loops, and changes in the order of evaluation of expressions that are not consistent with a... [31 May 2008]
Momentum Webcast: Charting Your Path on the SAM Maturity Model (Level 100)
White Paper Key areas of focus that the presenter covers specifically include: the objective, staged, and incentivized road map toward ISO; evaluating the key SAM competencies that deliver business value; and how SAM, together with the Infrastructure... [30 May 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News Microsoft pushed OOXML through as a fast-track International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard, and OOXML became IS29500 in April. However, Microsoft on Thursday told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk that the changes OOXML had gone... [23 May 2008]
OOXML row continues
News Following a highly contentious vote among national standards bodies, ISO announced on 2 April that OOXML was to become an official standard. Williams added: "Something that had that high a level of contention is not suitable for fast-tracking," and... [02 May 2008]
RFID Basics for Retailers
White Paper The recently ratified EPCglobal UHF Generation 2 standard and the RFID standards work being done by ISO are key to improving this experience and progressing RFID into the mainstream. With global RFID standards coming into place, the key technology... [01 May 2008]
TechNet Webcast: Active Directory and Compliance Standards (Level 300)
White Paper The presenter also covers best practice standards outlined by the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT), and the International Organization for Standardization... [01 May 2008]
PowerLock & ISO 17799 Standards
White Paper ISO 17799 is a comprehensive set off controls comprising best practices in information security. In this paper, PowerTech describes how its tools and applications can help organizations comply or adhere to security standards related to AS/400 systems. [23 Apr 2008]
Achieving Policy, Regulatory and Standards Compliance Through Implementing an ISO/IEC 27000 Series: Information Security Management System
White Paper This paper has been prepared to provide those organizations wishing to demonstrate their compliance with various policy, legal, regulatory and other chosen standards with an understanding of how that may be accomplished through the implementation... [22 Apr 2008]
Practical Implementation of an ISO 17799- Compliant Information Security Management System Using a Novel ASD Method
White Paper The ASD framework and its output is fully ISO/IEC17799 compliant but takes the organization's actual management systems into account, so that ISO/IEC 17799 certification is not necessarily the ultimate target if the organization so chooses. [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), according to tests run by a document standards... [21 Apr 2008]
Critics label Microsoft's OOXML a 'marketing tool'
News The ISO spokesperson said: "The issue of revising the fast-track procedure, or any other ISO or IEC procedure, is an ongoing process, and the experience with ISO/IEC 29500, along with the results of other standards-development activities, will... [21 Apr 2008]
