Saturday | 10 January, 2009

Stories about: ECMA

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    IBM threatens to leave standards bodies 24/09/2008 08:30:00

    IBM is threatening to leave organizations that set standards for software interoperability because of concerns that their processes are not always fair.
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    Nations question ISO's merit following dropped OOXML appeals 03/09/2008 08:08:00

    Countries whose appeals were dismissed regarding the ISO/IEC's approval of Microsoft's OOXML as an international standard are questioning the judgment and relevance of the ISO/IEC and the standards they approve.
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    JavaScript 2's new direction 27/08/2008 08:40:00

    Standardization efforts for the next version of JavaScript have taken a sharp turn this month, with some key changes in the Web scripting technology's direction. JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, has helped forge a consensus on how to proceed with the direction for JavaScript's improvements. "JavaScript was sitting still. It was stagnant," he says.
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    ISO, IEC reject appeals, approve OOXML spec 18/08/2008 02:31:00

    The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have given the green light to publish the Microsoft-backed Office Open XML (OOXML) specification after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard.
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    The A-Z of Programming Languages: JavaScript 31/07/2008 21:04:52

    In this interview we chat to Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and Chief Technology Officer of Mozilla Corporation. Eich details the development of JS from its inception at Netscape in 1995, and comments on its continued popularity, as well as what he believes will be the future of client-side scripting languages on the Web.
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    ISO, IEC leaders recommend rejection of OOXML appeals 10/07/2008 08:46:01

    The leaders of the ISO and the IEC have recommended the rejection of appeals from four countries that protested a vote approving OOXML, an XML-based document format submitted by Microsoft as an international standard.
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    Microsoft answers interoperability concerns 18/06/2008 08:00:42

    The launch of Microsoft's new interoperability principles have been both cautiously welcomed and sceptically scrutinised as the company goes about convincing the IT industry that it is genuine in its pursuit to provide interoperability with rival products, more consumer choice, less vendor lock-in and greater collaboration with the open source community.
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    How Microsoft lost the office file format battle 30/05/2008 11:41:18

    Score one for the good guys: Last week, Microsoft announced that not only would Office 2007 Service Pack 2 support the ODF (Open Document Format) standard, but the productivity suite would not offer support for the ISO standard version of Microsoft's own OOXML (Office Open XML) format until its next major version, release date unknown.
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    FAQ: Office 14 and Microsoft's support for ODF 28/05/2008 10:37:02

    Changes were made to OOXML between Ecma's approval a year and a half ago and ISO's approval this spring. Microsoft won't support the ISO version until Office 14 arrives around the end of 2009. Is this a big deal, as Microsoft critics such as Andy Updegrove claim?
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    'Office' politics and the XML file format fight 27/05/2008 08:18:23

    OK, try to follow this: Microsoft has spent the past two years slamming its Open XML file format through the process to make it an international standard. Along the way, there's been arm-twisting, committee-packing, bribery and other chicanery. But by last week, Microsoft was one step away from success.
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    All eyes on how Microsoft pulls off ODF support 23/05/2008 10:10:29

    Microsoft's declaration last week that it would finally support OpenDocument Format and join in further development of the rival document format was applauded by many critics as a major step forward, but the outcome of those steps will be under review for years to come, observers say.
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