Saturday | 6 September, 2008
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Microsoft denies threatening to withdraw funding 22/04/2008 09:00:31
Microsoft East Africa has dismissed allegations that it threatened to withdraw funding to Kenya if the government did not vote "yes" on OOXML. - +
Microsoft's ISO win may worsen antitrust woes 04/04/2008 10:36:14
Microsoft has won a year-long quest to make its Office Open XML document format an ISO-recognised international standard. - +
OOXML approved, but some say standards process needs review 04/04/2008 07:13:21
Now that the ISO has standardized Office Open XML some are asking if the standards process itself is next in line for a thorough evaluation. - +
OOXML approval only first step in road to adoption 02/04/2008 09:13:16
The International Organization for Standardization's approval of Microsoft's OOXML as an international standard is just the beginning of what could be a lengthy process before the file format can be widely and successfully implemented for exchanging documents, according to critics and supporters of OOXML. - +
ISO adopts OOXML format as international standard 02/04/2008 07:52:52
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has adopted an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format. - +
Microsoft sweetens open source offer 27/03/2008 08:39:27
Microsoft continued telling the open source interoperability story it began crafting last month by adding partnerships around support of document formats and user interface technology. - +
Microsoft OOXML SDK renews standards debate 17/03/2008 10:15:08
With the non-decision from the ISO standards body last month on whether or not to adopt Microsoft OOXML (Open Office XML) file format as an industry standard and Microsoft's decision to release the OOXML SDK next month, the discussions over whether or not OOXML is worthy of being a standard is expected to become heated once again. - +
ISO officials, others dispute Open XML meeting was flawed 10/03/2008 07:07:59
The ISO official who was in charge of a meeting held last week to discuss possible changes to the Office Open XML standards proposal is hitting back at claims by critics that established rules were disregarded in a bid to hasten the adoption of the Microsoft file format as an open standard. - +
Rules altered in OOXML standardization process 03/03/2008 08:24:40
ISO delegates working to standardize Open Office XML created new rules on the fly to cover the fact they failed to discuss nearly 80 per cent of the 1,100 questions submitted about the document specification format because they ran out of time during their five-day meeting in Geneva. - +
Weak support for OOXML changes throws shadow over approval 03/03/2008 08:11:34
A committee of ISO members in Geneva may have approved the proposed changes to Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML), but the document format's final approval remains far from certain. - +
How OOXML vote could change all -- and nothing 29/02/2008 07:46:12
Next month, national standards bodies will vote for the second time on whether to adopt the Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard.
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