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What did the ISO and the IEC say to the anti-OOXML crowd? “Go away, losers.” In four different languages, no less. Open XML is here to stay, yum-yums*. Get over it! Now, can we all just get along? *How must those troglodytes Sutor, Updegrove, and Jones...
Sometimes it is a wonder how the obvious manages to escape the eyes of the supposedly knowledgeable. Case in point is Microsoft's decision to add ODF and PDF read/write functionality directly into the next service pack of Microsoft Office 2007, this...
Today, the US INCITS voted to approve the Open Office XML document format specification for fast-track approval to the ISO. Hopefully, this is a necessary first step in the dominos falling the way of approval of this very important document specification...
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...
There are just waay too many snarky comments I could make here. However, since we are all adults, I’ll pass. However, it is nice to see the government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, Governor, finally take charge of the impending...
Ecma international is probably the only progressive standards body out there. Thanks to them we have Ecma 376, currently submitted to the ISO for certification as a standard, and now, TC46. TC46, full name TC46- XPS Technical Committee, is a technical...
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