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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 3:46 PM

ISO takes full control - SC34 now moving forward on maintenance and evolution of Open XML

I'm heading home from Norway in the morning, but wanted to give a quick update on the progress made over the past few days. I was attending the SC34 meetings in Oslo and there was a good amount of focus on document format standards (SC34, as designated
Posted by BrianJones | 72 Comments
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:20 AM

Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war

I'm sure many folks have seen the news by now that Open XML has been approved as an ISO/IEC standard (IS 29500). Based on the numbers I've seen, looking at the P member countries there are now 24 who vote "yes", and only 8 vote "no". This puts the P member
Posted by BrianJones | 112 Comments
Friday, March 28, 2008 10:17 AM

Norway vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Norway has also decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500 (Open XML). http://www.standard.no/imaker.exe?id=18594 Norway had initially voted "no with comments" in September, so it's great to see that they now feel Open XML is ready to be an ISO
Posted by BrianJones | 42 Comments
Friday, March 28, 2008 10:14 AM

South Korea vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Oliver Bell just informed me that South Korea has decided to vote for approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML) as an ISO standard. This is a change from their original "no with comments" posisiton they took back in September, and is great news. South Korea was
Posted by BrianJones | 0 Comments
Friday, March 28, 2008 6:59 AM

Denmark vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Jesper Lund Stocholm is reporting that Denmark has decided to change their initial vote of "no" in September to "yes" for ISO approval of DIS 29500 (Open XML). Here is a pointer to the press release: http://www.ds.dk/4225 As Stephen McGibbon put it: "Denmark
Posted by BrianJones | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:47 PM

Finland vote is now “yes” for Open XML

Here's the official statement, although it's in Finnish: http://www.sfs.fi/ajankohtaista/tiedotteet/20080327195555.html Finland had initially voted "abstain" back in September, but they have now decided to change their vote to "yes" in support of DIS
Posted by BrianJones | 31 Comments
Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:58 AM

The OSP will apply to DIS 29500 (Open XML) going forward

Oliver has a post today discussing this, as it's come up a lot in the discussions he's been having: http://osrin.net/2008/03/27/the-osp-will-apply-to-future-versions-of-dis29500/ -Brian
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:31 PM

Video clip of the add-in for authoring Scientific Articles

If you want to get an idea of how the add-in works, Pablo has posted a short video: Pablo suggested skipping to about 4:40 into the video to see the actual solution. For more information on the add-in, check out the blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exscientia/archive/2008/03/25/short-video-clip-on-the-add-in.aspx
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:16 PM

HP in favor of Open XML

www.hp.com/go/officedocumentstandards "In the current vote on OOXML at JTC 1, HP is supporting an affirmative vote in those national standards bodies in which HP is active." -Brian
Posted by BrianJones | 2 Comments
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 1:04 AM

Czech vote is now “yes” for Open XML

I just saw this on Stephen McGibbon's website: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/25/czech-republic-votes-to-approve-dis29500.aspx The Czech Republic has decided to change their vote to "yes" for DIS 29500. The Czech national body (led by Jirka Kosek
Posted by BrianJones | 4 Comments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:56 PM

Can I mention that it’s also in ODF?

I try to keep the discussion on this blog primarily focused on the area I care most about, the technology behind Open XML. Every so often I've mentioned ODF, especially when discussing the translation and harmonization updates, but in terms of discussing
Posted by BrianJones | 39 Comments
Monday, March 24, 2008 11:30 AM

ODF editor believes Open XML standardization is good for ODF

Via Stephen McGibbon: http://notes2self.net/archive/2008/03/24/durusau-quot-opendocument-among-others-will-lose-if-openxml-loses-quot.aspx " Patrick Durusau has posted another thoughtful contribution to the document formats standardisation debate" -Bria
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:54 PM

Ongoing support for IS 29500 (Open XML)

We're a couple weeks away from the final decision on whether DIS 29500 will become IS 29500 and if ISO will take on the stewardship of the Open XML formats. We already had a good preview of the type of work we can achieve within the SC34 group over the
Posted by BrianJones | 34 Comments
Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:00 PM

Narrative of the ISO/IEC DIS-29500 BRM Meeting

BRM Summary I wanted to take the time to give a narrative of what actually happened in the BRM, since we're now moving onto the final phase and I wanted to get this all in writing before I forgot. I wanted to give an overview of the topics discussed based
Posted by BrianJones | 26 Comments
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:03 PM

Interesting Links (March 13 2008)

Gray looks into some of the recent thoughts from Patrick Durusau: http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2008/03/12/within-minutes.aspx Accessibility update from Reed, and some news on the activities so far at CSUN: http://blogs.technet.com/reedblog/archive/2008/03/10/microsoft-at-csun.aspx
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