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[see remarks from IBM]
Microsoft Failing Its Own OOXML Standard (ISO/IEC 29500)
http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2010/04/microsoft-failing-its-own-ooxml-standard-isoiec-29500.html
Alex Brown: Microsoft Fails the Standards Test
http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-231455/alex-brown:microsoft-fails-the-standards-test
Standards Expert â "Microsoft Fails the Standards Test"
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/02/1355232/Standards-Expert-mdash-Microsoft-Fails-the-Standards-Test
Microsoft's Gift to Open Standards
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| This is truly staggering â not so much that
| Microsoft should so publicly thumb its nose
| at the ISO and the entire standards-making
| community, but that in doing so, it
| confirms all the worst predictions that
| many made at the time. It suggests a level
| of arrogance that is breathtaking â that
| having obtained the coveted and presumably
| irrevocable ISO approval, having won its
| little game, it just doesn't care what
| anyone thinks.
|
| [...]
|
| There's little we can do about the fact
| that the ISO standard has been granted, but
| we can make sure that people fully
| understand what has happened here. In that
| sense, Microsoft's actions are truly a gift
| to all those promoting truly open
| standards.
`----
http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2889
OOXML News So Shocking I Canât Even Think Of A Headline
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| Team Apologista is very big on âcontextâ,
| so allow me to accommodate:
|
| Dr. Alex Brown was the convenor of the
| OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting back in Feb
| of 2008. Dr. Brown constantly poo-pooed
| concerns about Microsoftâs manipulation of
| the standardization process, often
| defending Microsoft directly and attacking
| ODF specifically along the way.
|
| I do not think it is an exaggeration to say
| that without his efforts, OOXML would not
| have passed the standardization process.
|
| So, when Dr. Brown says âMicrosoft Fails
| the Standards Testâ, and then goes on in
| detail to explain how Microsoft has either
| broken or failed to follow up on promises
| made â promises crucial at the time to
| getting OOXML through the standardization
| procees â it is truly a giant shock! No one
| could have seen this coming!
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/04/ooxml-news-so-shocking-i-cant-even-think-of-a-headline/
ISO OOXML convener: Microsoft's format "heading for failure"
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| Although Microsoft's Office Open XML
| (OOXML) document format became an ISO
| standard two years ago, the company still
| hasn't built any software that truly
| complies with the standard. Microsoft
| Office 2010, which is expected to be
| released later this year, implements the
| deprecated "transitional" version of the
| format and is not compatible with the
| version that was crafted by the standards
| body.
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http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/iso-ooxml-convener-microsofts-format-heading-for-failure.ars
Recent:
Microsoft accused of failure to observe Open XML standards process
http://www.itwriting.com/blog/2424-microsoft-accused-of-failure-to-observe-open-xml-standards-process.html
Alex Brown: "Without action, the entire OOXML project is now surely heading for failure"
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| In reviewing my RSS feed this morning, I
| found this interesting blog entry by Alex
| Brown, titled Microsoft Fails the
| Standards Test. In it, Alex makes a
| number of statements, and reaches a number
| of conclusions, that are likely to startle
| those that followed the ODF-OOXML saga.
| The bottom line? Alex thinks that
| Microsoft has failed to fulfill crucial
| promises upon which the approval of OOXML
| was based. He concludes that unless
| Microsoft reverses course promptly, âthe
| entire OOXML project is now surely heading
| for failure.â
|
| Wow.
`----
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20100401074623393
CAFC Won't Rehear Patent Case Of Editing XML
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| One of the more troubling patent rulings
| in the past year involved a Canadian
| company, i4i, that held a patent
| (5,787,449) that appears to broadly (very
| broadly) cover editing a custom XML
| document, separate from the presentation
| layer of a document.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100401/1420508835.shtml
U.S. court rejects Microsoft patent case appeal
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| A federal appeals court denied on Thursday
| Microsoft Corp's request that a full panel
| of judges rehear arguments in its long-
| running patent dispute with a small
| Canadian technology company.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6303KG20100401
Fifth Anniversary of ODF is May 1st
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| Weâll be hitting a significant date next
| month. It was on May 1st, 2005 that Open
| Document Format (ODF) 1.0 was approved by
| OASIS.
|
| I hope we can all take time to reflect on
| far weâve gone, with the specification
| itself, with the quality and diversity of
| implementations and with world-wide
| adoption.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/04/fifth-anniversary-of-odf.html
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