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OOXML vs. ODF: Lessons learnedPosted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on Mar 31, 2008 7:55 AM Subscribe Alerts75 comments: The votes have been tallied but it's still not 100 percent certain that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document-format is going to become an ISO standard.[Read the rest]

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Microsoft OOXML standardization bid: The clock is ticking: The politicking is almost over. At midnight (Central European Time) on Saturday March 29, voting regarding whether Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) document format will get ISO standards approval will... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Mar 28, 2008 12:18 PM; 59 Comments
Will OOXML get the ISO standards nod? It's not a given: While there's still a month left before the final votes are tallied, Microsoft's bid to gain ISO standards approval for its Office Open XML (OOXML) document format is anything but... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Mar 1, 2008 8:28 AM; 36 Comments
OOXML vs. ODF: What's happening this week: From February 25 to 29 in Geneva, the next step in the seemingly never-ending show-down over whether Microsoft's Office Open XML document format should be granted ISO standard status is... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Feb 25, 2008 7:56 AM; 76 Comments
IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML?: In spite of their public opposition to Microsoft's attempt to get the ISO standardization nod for its Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, IBM and Google quietly are supporting OOXML.... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Jan 21, 2008 6:24 AM; 59 Comments
Independent study advises IT planners to go OOXML: Market researchers with the Burton Group have issued a 37-page study -- not commissioned by Microsoft or any other tech vendor -- that finds Microsoft's OOXML document format to be... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Jan 14, 2008 6:41 AM; 236 Comments
Microsoft restores Office 2003 users' access to old file types: Microsoft, justifiably, has come under a lot of criticism for blocking Office 2003 users' access to older file formats -- even if it was in the name of security. But... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Jan 6, 2008 8:20 AM
Intense interest in Microsoft Office standard: The underlying question remains this. Is standards-setting a judicial or a political process? Even if it is a judicial process, should such a process ignore politics, or be informed by... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Dec 14, 2007 10:03 AM
Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?: Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Berlind's Testbed on: Dec 4, 2007 12:10 PM; 19 Comments
Microsoft starts rolling out more OOXML translators: Over the next three months, Microsoft will be releasing new and updated translators designed to aid customers who want interoperability between Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) and other document formats,... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Dec 4, 2007 10:20 AM
OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation': When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Berlind's Testbed on: Nov 29, 2007 1:17 PM; 39 Comments
OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future: I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Berlind's Testbed on: Nov 16, 2007 11:22 AM; 10 Comments
OpenDocument Foundation folds. Will Microsoft benefit?: The OpenDocument Foundation -- a group whose name and charter would lead one to believe that it was backing the OpenDocument Format (ODF), but which ended up backing a different... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Nov 14, 2007 5:54 AM
ODF and differences of opinion: When I read that the OpenDocument Foundation had decided to back away from work on ODF in favor of CDF (a W3C-backed standard) out of a belief that ODF wouldn't... [Read the rest]; Posted by John Carroll in John Carroll on: Nov 2, 2007 9:06 AM; 45 Comments
Will GNOME split give Microsoft Open XML standards win?: Opponents of making the Microsoft Word format an ISO document standard, like OpenDocument Fellowship member Russell Ossendryver, compare GNOME's actions to Democrats offering counters to President Bush's 2005 plan on... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Oct 31, 2007 6:43 AM
ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML: Microsoft's battle with backers of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard could end up going the way that so many contests do: Won by Microsoft as much -- if not... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Oct 29, 2007 10:01 AM
Google scores a win over Microsoft's OOXML: Microsoft's proposal for the fast track of the OOXML standard was recently shot down by the ISO. Google concludes that Microsoft's OOXML should never be standardized due to things like... [Read the rest]; Posted by Garett Rogers in Googling Google on: Sep 15, 2007 11:14 AM; 11 Comments
ZDNet reader: Don't let OOXML vs. ODF shenanigans tarnish other standards setters: I've been a watcher of the great many standards setting processes for a great many years and there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that most people don't... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Berlind's Testbed on: Sep 6, 2007 12:04 PM; 46 Comments
Why Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote: I believe that the world is big enough for multiple file-format specifications. I don't think the Open Document Format (ODF) deserves to be the only format sanctioned as an "open... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Sep 4, 2007 8:32 AM
Microsoft: Why the ODF vs. OOXML battle matters: I had a chance to ask Tom Robertson, General Manager of Interoperability and Standards for Microsoft -- someone who has a lot invested in the ODF vs. OOXML contest --... [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Feb 28, 2007 4:48 PM
Given latest in OO-XML vs. ODF, Microsoft must reconsider its support for ODF: There has been a flurry of recent activity in the battle between Office Open XML (OO-XML) and the OpenDocument Format (ODF) that could be swinging the tide in the latters... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Feb 7, 2007 12:41 PM
File format wars: Is there more to ODF vs. OOXML than vendor politics?: Standards battles tend to be all about politics and politicking, as the increasingly heated Open Document Format (ODF) vs. Open Office XML (OOXL) file-format contest proves. [Read the rest]; Posted by Mary Jo Foley in All About Microsoft on: Feb 7, 2007 9:52 AM
Betwixt and between ODF, OO-XML, and Google, Corel discusses Wordperfect roadmap: Until very recently, if you or your company wanted to buy a "productivity suite" -- a package of software that includes a word processor, a spreadsheet, Powerpoint-like presentations, and a... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Dec 18, 2006 10:57 AM
How to alienate your government customers 101?: Sooner or later, it was bound to happen. Some tech media outlet would send one of its bloodhounds on the trail that was left in the wake of Massachusetts decision... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Dec 5, 2006 12:23 PM
Novell: We're adding Microsoft OpenXML support to OpenOffice.org: Wow. Barely a week has passed since Corel announced that Wordperfect Office Suite would be supporting both the OpenDocument Format and Microsofts OpenXML, and now, it looks like OpenOffice.org will... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Berlind's Testbed on: Dec 4, 2006 11:42 AM
China's own document standard: A clear message to US IT vendors?: Fresh off giving a keynote speech in Beijing during an event that was organized by the Chinese National Institution of Standardization (the CNIS), Andy Updegrove is now stateside with a... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Nov 9, 2006 8:02 AM
Lotus Notes to get ODF, but SuSE desktop version needs work: Rodney Gedda of ComputerWorld Australia:The release of Notes 7.0.1 for [Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop] 10 makes it more cross-platform, with Windows, Mac OS X, and Fedora Linux already supported, and... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Oct 30, 2006 7:56 AM
Closer to fine without Windows: If you really want desktop users to dump Windows you need applications. Today, we got applications.Eudora is going open source, and its basic technology will now be based on Mozillas... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Oct 11, 2006 1:08 PM
Google Spreadsheets 1.1.5g released: Google released a new version of their web-based spreadsheet application with a few new features -- but charts are still nowhere to be seen. Even so, just to keep us... [Read the rest]; Posted by Garett Rogers in Googling Google on: Sep 9, 2006 12:28 PM
OpenDocument camp in full-court press with '100 or so' countries?: Late yesterday, IBMs vice president of standards and open source Bob Sutor published a blog that points to Malaysias potential adoption of the OpenDocument (ODF) file format. According to OpenMalaysia... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Jul 19, 2006 7:55 AM
OpenDocument/Web-based app pressure mounts on Microsoft: Last week, while Mashup Camp was taking place, a reader from Israel responded to my blog regarding Microsofts support (actually, the lack thereof) of the OpenDocument Format. Microsoft recently... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Jul 17, 2006 12:18 PM