Archive for the ‘OOXML’ Category
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Microsofts XML-based Office format failed to receive the needed votes for a fast track standardization. However, the differences have been more than marginal: Microsoft received 74% of all qualified votes, whereas 75% would have been sufficient to get it through. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has put ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Whoever thought that Microsoft would not be up to every trick to push their document format, should read some of these blog postings. To quote one of the blog, in which a blogger writes about the standardization process in Portugal:
Let me remark the fact that representatives of Sun and IBM ...
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
I'm sure most of the techies out there already know about the effort of Microsoft to push their XML-based file format "Office Open XML" (OOXML in short) of the Office 2007 Suite as open standard. The problem with it is though, that the whole format description is way too bloated ...
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