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Tag Archives: ECMA
OOXML IPR problems
I get sent a lot of material on OOXML by people around the world, and I presume I’m not the only recipient. A lot of it is, frankly, rather funny, since it assumes that the people reading it won’t ever … Continue reading
Some “OOXML has trouble” items from around the web
From the Financial Times, “Brussels to probe votes on Microsoft standard”: It asked standards organisations for views on these charges and any supporting details. It was unclear on Tuesday how many standards organisations worldwide had been contacted by the Commission. … Continue reading
Descriptions of Microsoft Office binary formats
Evidently Microsoft made the descriptions of the binary formats for Office available on February 15 on their website. This was, of course, before the BRM so if anyone had questions or proposals about the binary formats in Geneva, the information … Continue reading
The OOXML BRM: Secrets and statistics
I’ve provided a few links in another entry to some of the negative views from the ISO/IEC Ballot Resolution Meeting for Microsoft’s OOXML specification (via ECMA). For the most part, I’m letting others comment, especially those who were in the … Continue reading
links for 2008-03-03: Special OOXML BRM Edition
XML spec editor: OOXML ISO process is “unadulterated BS” “Participants say that only a small portion of the ECMA responses were actually discussed during the BRM. When time ran out, the rest of the responses were simply approved without any … Continue reading
Monday morning: OOXML BRM tidbits
I’m in Geneva this week because I’m taking part in the Open Forum Europe conference “Standards and the Future of the Internet.” In addition, of course, the ISO/IEC OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting is taking place this week. The OFE organizers … Continue reading
links for 2007-12-29
Wow, So OOXML Isn’t Perfect After All The Deprecated “Smoke Screen” of MS Office Open XML (OOXML) | Fanatic Attack “In an effort to win quick converts to its bid to have Microsoft Office Open XML (MOOXML) accepted as an … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Macintosh, News, Open Source, Virtual Worlds
Tagged ECMA, Microsoft, ODF, ODF Alliance, OOXML, Second Life
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Comments on ECMA’s (aka Microsoft’s) OOXML comment resolutions
We’re starting to hear about how Microsoft (under ECMA’s name) is resolving the technical comments on OOXML. What do you need to know about this? Where are they? If this is a transparent process, we need to see the comments … Continue reading
Wondering about all those OOXML comments?
Rob Weir has some comments about them over in his blog. Comments there, please.
2. OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting: Why You Should Worry About All Comments
In English language literature, the usual example of a very long book is Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace which, at least in the hardcover version to which I’ve linked, comes in at 1296 pages. Suppose you were an editor for … Continue reading
1. OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting: Questions and Answers
Though I’ve written about this before, I continue to be amazed that there does not seem to be a single, unambiguous, and logically complete description of what will happen at the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) in Geneva at the … Continue reading
Some OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting comments
The situation and rules for the Ballot Resolution Meeting (BRM) are starting to become clearer. As you may know, this is a follow-up to the September 2 vote where the Microsoft/ECMA OOXML (“Open” “XML”) specification failed on both measures to … Continue reading
More OOXML damage
See Andy Updegrove’s piece ‘OOXML Payback Time as Global ISO/IEC JTC1 SC 34 Standards Work “Grinds to a Halt”‘.
Remembering September
In early August I stated in this blog that after the OOXML JTC1 ballot closed on September 2, the sun would rise, the birds would sing, and so on. As we are now at the end of the month and … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Open Source, Standards
Tagged ECMA, ISO, Microsoft, ODF, OpenOffice.org
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Stephe Walli on Microsoft, OOXML
See his blog entry “Microsoft’s Failures with the OOXML Standard.” He says, in part, The sad part is that even if the ISO vote actually goes in Microsoft’s favour, it still won’t matter. It buys them a few years of … Continue reading
links for 2007-08-30
PC World – Microsoft Pressed Swedish Partners to Vote for Open XML Note the comment about retraction. Perhaps they agree that the vote should be retracted? (tags: microsoft ooxml sweden) New Zealand casts NO on Open XML vote ‘”Stakeholders raised … Continue reading
Must Read: Andy Updegrove on the Linux Foundation’s NO Recommendation on OOXML
There’s nothing more I could say here that Andy hasn’t brilliantly described in his blog entry, so go read “Linux Foundation Releases Statement Calling for National Bodies to Vote “No” on OOXML.” Andy goes deeply into the reasons why OOXML … Continue reading
Last minute OOXML voters welcome
One little detail that many people do not know about the current voting rules on Microsoft’s Office product specification OOXML, now at the end of the Five Month Ballot for JTC1, is that there are two main classes of voters: … Continue reading
Microsoft cannot resolve OOXML JTC1 ballot comments
It is not the responsibility of Microsoft to resolve the many technical comments that have been presented on OOXML within the JTC1 ballot promise. They cannot promise to fix them. It is the responsibility of ECMA to handle this, since … Continue reading
Oracle’s technical comments on OOXML / DIS 29500
Oracle’s technical comments for national standards bodies considering how to vote on Microsoft’s product Office XML format, aka OOXML, aka, OpenXML, aka DIS 29500, are now available on the OpenDocument Format Alliance website in PDF form.
An “OOXML is a bad idea” blog entry compendium
I thought I would put together a list of some of my blog entries that touch on the OOXML issue now being considered in the JTC1 Fast Track Procedure. This isn’t everything I’ve ever written, but it includes most of … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, Standards
Tagged ECMA, ISO, Microsoft, ODF, ODF Alliance, OOXML
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Re OOXML: JTC1 Voting Guide for National Bodies
The ODF Alliance has published a JTC1 Voting Guide for National Bodies for those considering how to vote on the Microsoft OOXML specification. Please take a look if you are involved with a vote or forward to any colleagues of … Continue reading
Why OOXML will not be an ISO/IEC standard in 2007
Even though the JTC1 ballot closes on September 2 on Microsoft’s product description for Microsoft Office, namely OOXML or DIS 29500, this will not become an ISO/IEC standard in 2007. This most pointedly means: At this time, you should make … Continue reading
No is no, to OOXML
I’ve heard several reports of supporters of OOXML trying to get national standards bodies to change their votes from “NO with comments” to “YES with comments” because “it’s the same thing.” The logic, which I’ll explain in a later post, … Continue reading
IBM is still locked out of the Portuguese OOXML meeting
I just wanted to give you an update on the situation in Portugal regarding IBM’s participation in the standards meeting to decide on the Portuguese vote on OOXML. In spite of various communications, we are still locked out and will … Continue reading
Can’t buy me (OOXML) love in Italy
See the blog post “OOXML does not buy its way in Italy”. I had been trying to figure out how to get that Beatles “Can’t Buy Me Love” into a blog entry for a few days, but Carlo beat me … Continue reading
Comment on Microsoft, ECMA, and XPS
In the last couple of weeks I’ve run a two entries (here and here) regarding Microsoft’s submission of its XPS specification to ECMA. I raised some questions along the line that this was the OOXML situation all over again, namely … Continue reading
Interesting headline regarding XPS
See “Microsoft’s document format XPS to become an ECMA standard.” Now those of us who have worked with the press know that headlines are often connected, shall we say, in an interesting way, to the article or the interviews that … Continue reading
links for 2007-07-01
Document Formats Erwin’s StarOffice Tango – ODF conversion with Ant “In case you did not know, it’s quite easy to modify ODF files using Ant scripts.” (tags: odf ant) Enterprise Initiatives: Open Source and Microsoft Free This raises an interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged ECMA, Microsoft, ODF, Second Life
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Microsoft and ECMA: Together again, doing it again
If you loved OOXML and the way that ECMA did exactly what Microsoft wanted, you’ll love the new working group around XPS, Microsoft’s home grown competitor to PDF. The current link for the new program is up on the ECMA … Continue reading
