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 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 releases OOXML-to-HTML translator
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 06/30/08 - 7:20pm.Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, reports a story on Linxworld. 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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No surprises here, OOXML is in (for the moment)
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 10:21am
What are the odds that OOXML/ISO saga is over now that the vote has been officially announced? (It received a yes from from about 86 percent of the national bodies that participated in the vote.)
Given that the approval is dependent on if no one with the power to do so files an appeal ... and given that investigations as to the process of this vote are already underway (in Norway , this story says, but also, reportedly in Poland), it would be a shocker if an appeal WASN'T filed. Read more about OOXML.
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OOXML appears to have won the ISO vote
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Mon, 03/31/08 - 4:39pm.The contentious second vote to accept (or reject) Office Open XML as a fast-tracked ISO standard took place on Saturday. As of Monday, it is looking like OOXML has been accepted. ISO will not publish the official results until after its worldwide membership has been notified, Reuters reports. ISO will issue the formal press release on Wednesday, it said. Read more
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Microsoft promises not to sue over OOXML as ISO vote deadline nears
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Fri, 03/28/08 - 3:10pm.As Microsoft continues to try and get its OOXML document format accepted by the International Standards Organization, it has attempted to play the nice-guy card. Microsoft promised that it will not sue over the specification including future versions of it. It placed a caveat on this commitment, though. The promise holds true as long as Microsoft remains involved in controlling the OOXML's development, the Channel Register reports. Read more
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Microsoft partners its way to open source
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 3:16pm
Any move Microsoft makes towards working better with open source is a move most enterprises will appreciate. The partnerships it announced Tuesday are calculated, that's for sure. Read more
OOXML in ISO
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 1:24pm
The story of this spec becoming a standard/not becoming a standard never seems to cease. The U.S. voted yes and will probably do so again. In the end, ISO support won't matter to OOXML. If OOXML becomes popular with corporations because it is useful, this ECMA standard will succeed.
In the long run, too, we can only hope that the process of submitting it and accepting it/rejecting it doesn't damage ISO itself.
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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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XLS/DOC/PPT Get Open Spec Promise
Submitted by Mitchell Ashley on Tue, 02/19/08 - 2:30am.Microsoft placed the Office binary document formats under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise . OPS is basically Microsoft's own pledge that they will abide by the terms to keep any of their assigned technology open per their OSP. The OPS allows you to use and develop technology using the specifications without Microsoft coming after you infringement claims. They want you to use stuff under the OSP.
Friday Microsoft added five binary document specifications; .xls - Excel 97-2007, .xlsb - Excell 2007, .doc - Word97-2007, .ppt - PowerPoint 97-2007 and Office Drawing 97-2007. Read more
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Microsoft's OOXML tactics come under EU scrutiny
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Fri, 02/08/08 - 7:48pm.The number of probes the European Union has launched investigating Microsoft has increased to three, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The EU began an investigation into Microsoft's activities over its attempt to get Office Open XML adopted as an International Standards Organization (ISO) standard. 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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Craig Mundie Q&A: Bill Gate’s heir apparent
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Fri, 09/14/07 - 3:59pm.Bill Gates has announced that he will leave Microsoft in about a year (July, 2008) to focus on his philanthropic activities. His role as chief architect will be shared by Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. Ozzie has long been a news favorite, but Mundie seems to have gotten less of the spotlight even though he has been Gate’s close partner on technology for the last decade, he says. This Q&A with APC magazine shows that he tows the company line in most things. For instance, he calls the idea that the browser will become the interface for all software is a myth. Read more
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Can't get enough of the OOXML saga?
Submitted by NetworkWorld Co... on Tue, 09/11/07 - 9:44am.Our own John Obeto has been covering it, but if you need even more, Tim Bray links to several other bloggers who have been covering it extensively.
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RE: IBM piles on Microsoft's open document defeat
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 11:13pm
This is no surprise, given how big a critic IBM has been to Microsoft OOXML. Still, IBM has got clout and could help push OpenOffice to become the next office document de facto standard out from underneath Microsoft. The story says: "IBM Monday seized on last week’s rejection by the ISO of the Microsoft and Ecma International Office Open XML format and said it would throw its development weight behind OpenOffice.org, the most prominent set of open source applications based on the Open Document Format."
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