Microsoft Faces EU Probe on Word, Excel Dominance, People Say
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| Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, is facing deeper
| scrutiny from European regulators on whether it is abusing its dominance in
| word processing and spreadsheets, three people with direct knowledge of the
| case said.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aR9bHOp5bm3A&refer=europe
More information of Microsoft's latest setbacks and errrr... wrongdoing:
http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5857
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1741
http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=1742
OOXML End Game: Things Start to Become Interesting
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| The progress of a technical specification from development to adoption has a
| certain, often-lamented glacial quality to it, due to the consensus process
| involved. But while that process may be slow, it is not inexorable, and that
| which starts does not always finish.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070718060228231
Notes from Portugal on the July 16th Meeting on Ecma-376
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| Is this how standards are normally approved? If so, can we fix it? If
| Ecma-376 gets "approved" by shoving it through and not allowing interested
| parties to speak or vote, that just isn't an open standard to me. Is it to
| you? Yoo hoo, Massachusetts. Are you watching?
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007071812280798
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