NoOOXML

Inigo Surguy, the 67Bricks Chief Technologist, was appointed Principal UK Expert in Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) document format by the British Standards Institute technical committee responsible for British and international XML standards. 67Bricks is part of the Microsoft Empower programme. So How many bricks for 67 Bricks?

Academics say developers should be cautious following confusion over which parts of the OOXML specification are covered by Microsoft's "covenant not to sue".

European regulators are examining whether Microsoft Corp. violated antitrust laws during its push to get fast-track acceptance of MS-OOXML as an ISO standard.

Rob Weir reports that MSFT is backtracking on its promise to let ISO have oversight of and possible OOXML standard.

All info resides on a password protected site accessible to NB-chairperson on request and to NB-members at the descretion of the chairperson. Less than half of all chairpersons have even requested the password.

How do ballot resolution meetings at ISO proceed? Who can vote? On what? Bob Sutor answers some of these questions.

Richard Stallman is known for his strong opinions and sure he has his say on OOXML, too.

In France, AFNOR (French Association for Standarts) is responsible for the validation as an ISO norm for OpenXML

Ireland, the country of Microsoft Europe, is receiving comments until the 11 July 2007.