True, it is a good thing that Microsoft is finally adding support for ODF and Adobe PDF to its Office suite. But after all the torture that Microsoft put the International Standards Organization through to get its competing document format protocol, Office Open XML (OOXML), accepted as a fast-tracked standard, this move could very well make OOXML moot. READ MORE about it on the Microsoft Subnet blog.
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Microsoft releases Office 2007 SP2
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Tue, 04/28/09 - 5:33pm.Microsoft today released Office 2007 Service Pack 2. It is available now for download, (although you don't have to download it because Read more
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Microsoft promises ODF support in Office 2007 SP2, kinda sorta
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 12/18/08 - 5:19pm.
Earlier this week, Microsoft released technical documents describing how it plans to implement support of the Open Document Format (ODF) within Office 2007 Service Pack 2, expected to ship in 2009. Read more
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Microsoft goes open source in Asia
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 08/11/08 - 4:05pm.Microsoft is opening an open source interoperability lab in Asia. The facility, which will go into operation next month, will be located at the National Computer Center (NCC) in Quezon City, Manila, Philippines, according to GMA News. The lab wil support the Open Document Format and collaboration with open source groups, say officials. Read more
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Microsoft to add support for ODF and PDF in Office
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Wed, 05/21/08 - 1:22pm.Don't you just want to roll your eyes? Read more
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Word 2007 documents don't meet OOXML standard
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 04/21/08 - 2:15pm.Now that Microsoft has gotten Office Open XML (OOXML) accepted as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), it has found itself in an interesting dilemma. Changes were made to OOXML at the ISO ballot resolution meeting and because of this, Office 2007 documents no longer conform to the current standard (ISO/IEC 29500). So says Alex Brown, leader of the ISO group responsible for maintaining the OOXML standard, in his blog. Read more
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Rules altered in OOXML standardization process
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 8:04pm
Oh goodie -- new rules have been created in the standardization process specifically for OOXML. Because ISO delegates couldn't make it through more than 20% of the 1,100 comments during their five-day Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM), they opted to abandon the required individual review of 900 of 1,100 comments.
The implications seem obvious -- OOXML isn't ready to become a fast-tracked ISO standard. It is already an ECMA standard -- can't that be good enough?
Cooperation is needed, no matter the OOXML vote outcome
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:11pm
We've hit a second time a major player in the standards world has said the path ahead for OOXML (and ODF) is cooperation, perhaps an eventual merging of the two. Read more
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Defend it? Of course, but what's next for Office Open XML?
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/17/2008 - 2:49pm
It's not a surprise that Microsoft is still defending OOXML. It's not a surprise that Microsoft is still trying to put a cleaner spin on last year's scandalous ECMA vote. But the underlying story Read more
here is that Microsoft is ramping up another effort to push OOXML into the world (and defend against OpenOffice.org).
Trouble in ODF City!
Submitted by John.Obeto on Wed, 10/31/07 - 2:09am.Are you surprised?
Personally, I am shocked it took so long.
In my post here, I mentioned the fact that there were very perceptible differences between the two ODF-based desktop productivity suites I tested, Sun’s StarOffice, and IBM’s Lotus Symphony. In fact, I stated that”
"Looking at two distinct programs working off the same codebase supposedly, and getting the diametrically opposed user experiences from both, I cannot help but remember that phrase Alex Wolfe used when describing the myriad number of versions of Linux: Linux is a forking mess!
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A review of pretenders to the Office throne
Submitted by John.Obeto on Tue, 10/16/07 - 2:21am.Straying off the ranch, I have been testing IBM’s Lotus Symphony, the latest incarnation (in name only) of the DOS-era integrated program of the same name.
For this test, I focused on two aspects, usability and compatibility, as being more important to my constituency than others, since most companies considering any of these programs would probably be doing so with a current inventory of documents already saved in the Microsoft Office format.
Concurrent with this test, I also tested StarOffice, version 8, from Sun Microsystems since it is the suite the Open Office project is based upon. Read more
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Open Office XML wins some, loses some
Submitted by John.Obeto on Fri, 08/31/07 - 3:07am.Now this is getting to be a real battle.
Over the past few days, Microsoft has had a few wins in the drive to gaining ISO certification for the OOXML standard, known as Ecma-376.
It so happens that despite the whining of some US-based IBM mouthpieces trying to Astroturf the voting, saner heads prevailed, and proceeded to conditionally vote yes on approving OOXML, as revealed by the INCITS Executive Board on August 24. Read more
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Microsoft's ODF set-back
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/10/2007 - 8:32pm
Microsoft has lost a key vote in its quest to develop an alternative to the Open Document Format standard, backed by the open-source community. The executive committee of the International Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) fell one vote shy of the nine required to approve Microsoft's Open XML standard. It voted 8 to 7 in favor of approval with one abstention, the group announced Thursday.
RE: Massachusetts remains lightning rod on open documents
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/03/2007 - 1:47pm
"The reaction is not all negative especially given Massachusetts' earlier acceptance of the Open Document Format (ODF) has put the open document issue on the world map." So maybe it's a shame that Peter Quinn was burned so badly, given the net result. Do you think the story with Massachusetts makes other IT guys afraid to support ODF? Or does it make them feel like they want to support it? Read more. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/080207-massachusetts-open-document.html
Massachusetts now OK with Microsoft document formats
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 07/02/07 - 4:14pm.The state's Information Technology Division caused a ruckus last year when it mandated use of an open format that essentially left Microsoft Office documents out of the picture. Only one was around at the time, OpenDocument Format, or ODF, and Microsoft Office didn’t support it. Network World went so far as to name the person responsible, Peter Quinn, as one of the 50 Most Powerful People in 2006 for making the daring move. Unfortunately, our applause didn’t help the guy much. He was replaced by Louis Gutierrez in January. Read more
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Microsoft and rivals jostle over open doc standard
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/30/2007 - 3:34pm
Microsoft didn't 'bribe' standards expert
Submitted by Paul McNamara on Wed, 01/24/07 - 3:42pm.Good Morning Silicon Valley's John Paczkowski does an outstanding job of putting in their place all those lambasting standards expert Rick Jelliffe and Microsoft for the latter hiring the former to correct whatever Jelliffe judges to be inaccuracies in Wikipedia entries about on ODF (Open Document Format) and OOXML (Microsoft Office Open XML). Writes Paczkowski:
The company seems to have been honest and open about its intentions. It offered to hire an independent expert to suggest corrections in his area of expertise. Jelliffe obviously isn't a Microsoft apologist. And ultimately any changes he might make to the entries at issue will be reviewed by Wikipedia's editors and removed if they're inaccurate. Given Microsoft's position, what else was it supposed to do? Have Waggener Edstrom (Microsoft's PR firm) make the corrections?
Bravo! That was exactly my take on the matter after reading Jellife's post. The critics are simply letting their anti-Microsoft sentiments get in the way of giving this situation an intellectually honest weighing. Microsoft didn't do anything wrong, unless you believe every WikiSubject is obligated to sit quietly while what it perceives to be untruths go unchallenged. And Jellife most certainly didn't do anything wrong ... unless you want to count inviting an inevitable round of baseless criticism.
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