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Dennis Byron explained "Google, IBM, Red Hat, Sun and the Digistan Connection".
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by: 15 May 2008 18:42 |
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The New York State group that was told to investigate longterm storage needs in government and ODF/OOXML has produced a report. The most significant finding is that having more than one format doesn't provide increased choice. It confuses and increases complexity and costs instead. It would be better to use single, standardized formats to increase efficiency and interoperability.
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by: 21 May 2008 11:06 |
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Microsoft Puppet countries are leaving the P membership. Lebanon, Turkey, Cyprus, and Trinidad & Tobago have already dropped out. All those countries voted Yes without comments to OOXML.
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by: 14 May 2008 20:52 |
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Time for an iron broom policy. Or Microsoft could get into trouble like Senator McCain.
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by: 11 May 2008 23:29 |
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Microsoft says to the Blender project: "The ISO standard Office Open XML is an example of the direction we are moving towards"
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by: 11 May 2008 17:43 |
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Guess it!
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by: 08 May 2008 14:09 |
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In '04 Hugo Lueders' messages were getting sour. Still some bloggers argue with the self-proclaimed representative of the ...'global ICT industry'. The 'global common sense manufacturers' recommend his clients to embrace reality and logic.
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by: 05 May 2008 22:21 |
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A short summary of the history of Microsoft and the European Union. Closing remarks on the "openness" of OOXML are quite interesting.
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by: 28 Apr 2008 11:30 |
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It is just amazing to watch a global community in action.
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by: 18 Apr 2008 11:04 |
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Procurement rules are supposed to be performance based. Mandatory standards as a MS Office 2007 format do not fit. And what about a format as OOXML which official justification is backwards compatibility to the products of a single vendor? a distortion of competition?
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by: 24 Apr 2008 22:25 |
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OOXML is not the Office 2007 format, yet. Will a proven "ability to tinker" help with ISO OOXML's dissemination, as ISO BRM convenor Brown suggests?
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by: 24 Apr 2008 01:24 |
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Brinkburn looks into the future of ECMA and ISO. The OOXML case, the analysts warn, appears to be a "precedent that may well enable the breakdown of the formal standards process"
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by: 21 Apr 2008 01:44 |
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This week a conference in the European Parliament contributed to the debate around the "lock-in" of the European Parliament.
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by: 20 Apr 2008 12:44 |
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The untold story from Norway.
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by: 20 Apr 2008 13:14 |
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Today 15th April we are conducting a candle light vigil in bangalore The Candle light vigil demands India to appeal ISO approval of ooxml based on its comments and no vote. We also demands the Department of IT to draft a clear national policy for the use of Free standards for data storage.
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by: 15 Apr 2008 07:38 |
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SC 34 is fully captured and controls the future of OOXML. New procedural undertakings are made to extend ECMA's privileged access.
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by: 12 Apr 2008 15:17 |
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People were demonstrating today in Oslo in front of the ISO SC34 meeting against the adoption of Microsoft OOXML as an ISO standard, and especially against the behaviour of Standards Norway, who voted Yes to the specification, despite a lack of support by a majority of the technical committee.
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by: 09 Apr 2008 14:46 |
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Charles-H. Schulz blogs about the upcoming assaults on OpenDocument format.
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by: 07 Apr 2008 20:17 |
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Threats are cheap. Especially when it comes to threatening governments who do not use Microsoft's legacy OOXML format for non compliance with the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) WTO treaty.
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by: 09 Apr 2008 22:48 |
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After the vote in Norway moved from a disapproval in the national standardisation committee to a political approval of the OOXML format, upset members of the committee go political and organize a demonstration in Oslo.
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by: 07 Apr 2008 20:37 |
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