The US National Body (INCITS Executive Board) passed a motion this evening to cast a “ Yes with Comments ” vote on DIS29500 – the voting was: · 16 Yes (Apple, US Department of Homeland Security, EIA, EMC, GS1 US, HP, Intel, Lexmark, Microsoft, NIST...

The Deutsche Institut für Normung (DIN) in Germany announced on August 21st that it will support the advancement of Open XML as an ISO international standard. Jason has blogged about Germany's announcement to Vote Yes with comments for Open XML on...

User rights are assured in the case of the OpenXML standard at various levels: Via the standardization within ECMA the OpenXML standards has to be conform to the IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) rules of ECMA. An ISO 29500 (OpenXML) standard has...

Please see the links below regarding Novell's support for OpenXML Novell's download page for the OpenOffice Open XML Translator: http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~ Novell's download page for OpenOffice: http://www...

I have reproduced this article from ZDNET: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62021038,00.htm Open standards advocate comes out in favor of Microsoft By Don Sambandaraksa , Bangkok Post Thursday, June 14 2007 11:21 AM Microsoft...

ODF 1.0 is completely insufficient for spreadsheet interoperability today and SUN were aware and rushed it in order to be 1st. http://notes2self.net/archive/2006/07/12/Cutting-corners-_2D00_-the-realpolitik-of-ODF-standardisation_3F00_.aspx

Why Open XML is good for the country: Ø ISO standardization means passing the control of the format to an organization where countries of the world are taking the final decision Ø ODF came from OASIS and Open XML from ECMA international (who took...