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A Peek Behind the Ecma OOXML Curtain

12/14/2007  
Relevance: 10.41
As the date for the February BRM (Ballot Resolution Meeting) on ISO/IEC JTC1 DIS 29500 (a/k/a Ecma 376, a/k/a Microsoft OOXML) approaches, more and more attention is being paid to how Ecma will propose the disposition of the comments submitted during the general voting period. Yesterday, Ecma issued a press release that offers a bit of a peek behind the curtain.
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Why Ecma? (Part I)

12/22/2006  
Relevance: 9.93
A year ago, many words were written (including by me) on why Microsoft may have chosen Ecma to package Microsoft's Office Open XML formats as a standard. Now that Ecma has finished that project and adopted the result, there's additional data to examine that sheds some light on that question. That will be my topic today, and for the next several entries.
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Final OpenXML Approval Draft May be Postedd by Ecma on Monday

10/06/2006  
Relevance: 8.73
According to a short"Tech Informer" article just posted at CIO.com, Ecma, the European IT standards organization on Monday may post"as early as Monday," the final approval draft of OpenXML, the document format specification contributed to Ecma by Microsoft in an effort to counter the momentum behind the OASIS and ISO adopted ODF.
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Final Office Open XML Draft 1.0 Posted at Ecma Site

10/10/2006  
Relevance: 8.72
The final version of the Office Open XML 1.0 draft was posted an hour or so ago at the Ecma site. It is this specification that Microsoft hopes will be adopted, not only by Ecma, but by global standards body ISO/IEC as well, in an effort to slow the adoption of OpenDocument Format (ODF) by government users, among others.
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Ecma Approval Day for OOXML - What Does it All Mean?

12/08/2006  
Relevance: 8.59
Today is the day that Ecma, the European-based standards body chosen by Microsoft to fast-track its Office Open XML standard to ISO, will vote to approve that specification. What exactly will that mean? Let's try the Q&A format again to sort it all out.
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Implementation Bug submitted to ECMA ?

10/15/2006  
Relevance: 8.55
Ecma Office Open XML (OOXML)specification(Volume 5, section 3.17.4.1,"Date Representation") contradicts 400 years of civil calendar practice, encodes nonexistent dates and returns the incorrect value for WEEKDAY? Readthis blog post, i'm scared.
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Microsoft Wins Ecma Approval for Office OpenXML Format

12/08/2006  
Relevance: 8.19
Now that Microsoft's Office Open XML has been approved as an Ecma standard, it will be submitted for consideration as an ISO international standard.
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Yankees in the Court of King Arthur, with a Microsoft Agenda

01/31/2007  
Relevance: 8.19
ANSI/INCiTS has completed their review of Ecma 376, and is ready to cast their ISO/IEC Contradiction Review Phase Fast Track Ballot in favor of Ecma 376 being rammed through ISO. As Sam Hiser points out in hisPlexNex blog, there is an avalanche of contradictions, inconsistencies, and proprietary dependencies in Ecma 376. The findings continue to pour into public view. Still, there's not much an American can do about it. Our standards champions at ANSI/INCiTS have determined that no contradictions exist."
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There They Go Again: It's Time to Just Say No to Microsoft and Ecma

06/29/2007  
Relevance: 7.53
Ecma, the same very cooperative standards body that helped Microsoft submit OOXML to ISO/IEC in record time for global adoption, has just announced that it has chartered a new Technical Committee - this time to produce a standard that would be completely compliant with Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (that's Microsoft's answer to Adobe's PDF).
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News flash: DIS 29500 passes with minimal approval

04/01/2008  
Relevance: 7.16
Please find theofficial results for the ISO vote for OOXML (DIS 29500) below. Probably the impact on the adoption of ODF of the OOXML process will be minimal, but surely there will be some interest from the public around this. OOXML which was submitted by Microsoft to ECMA, and by ECMA to ISO, has literally crawled through the needles eye.[Empasize mine. Sadly not an april fool's joke - Sander]
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