"Venezuela has joined the list of countries that have lodged appeals against the adoption of an international standard based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) file format..." read more » DiscussBury
"India, Brazil, and South Africa have challenged ISO's approval of Microsoft's OOXML document format. The national standards bodies of those countries have filed for an appeal, citing insufficient..." read more » DiscussBury
Ratification as international standard could be delayedThe official blessing of Microsoft’s controversial Office Open XML (OOXML) document format as an international standard could be delayed after a read more » DiscussBury
Elizabeth Montalbano analyzes the meaning of Microsoft's decision to support the ODF, especially in light of its competing OOXML standard. read more » DiscussBury
Mary Jo Foley reviews the battle between Microsoft for ISO standardization of its OOXML format and the rebuttal by ODF advocates such as IBM and Sun Microsystems and suggests that we can learn severa read more » DiscussBury
Mary Jo Foley reports on Microsoft's announcement and widely leaked documents on the internet that indicate that Microsoft's OOXML document format has received standardization approval from the ISO read more » DiscussBury
Mary Jo Foley reports that both IBM and Google have added support for Microsoft's controversial OOXML file format to some of their products/services. Foley suggests this may be indicative of subtle read more » DiscussBury
Sam Varghese at iTWire writes a scathing piece on GNOME, a Linux desktop environment. While KDE has expressed its plans not to support OOXML even if the ISO approves it as a standard, GNOME has remai read more » DiscussBury
