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Name'n and Shame'n Where the Credit is Due: Setting the Record Straight on (Non)Voting in SC 34

10/29/2007  
Relevance: 7.07
Who's fault is the deadlock in SC 34, the ISO/IEC JTC1 committee responsible for processing the vote on OOXML? One way of looking at it says that ODF and OOXML supporters are equally to blame. The other says that it's the surge of OOXML immigrants that's causing the problem. Guess which one is right?
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OOXML: What's the Big Deal?

02/20/2008  
Relevance: 7.03
OOXML is essentially a complete replication of every chunk of data that a Microsoft Office application might possibly save in a file. The OOXML specification has been both criticized and defended by a number of people, leading many to wonderwhat the big deal is. This article illustrates the basis of technical, rather than political, objections to treating OOXML as a standard.
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Possible manipulation around OOXML process in Poland

03/28/2008  
Relevance: 6.87
To sum things up: The letter from PKN recommending KT to abstain has been kept secret, Currenlty there is no (required) concensus about OOXML in KT182, There is still no official decision of PKN concerning the OOXML, A couple of lawsuits are possibly on the way, EU investigation is in place. Stay tuned, things are boiling!
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Another update on ODF vs. OOXML file counts

08/15/2007  
Relevance: 6.78
It is now three months since I first posted the table of OOXML file types found by Google. I was curious how the numbers have changed. Google has indexed 162,700 ODF documents and only 1993 OOXML documents. In three months, 13,400 more ODF documents have been added to the web, with only 1,329 OOXML documents added. That isn't what I would call good traction for the overwhelmingly dominant office suite.
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KOffice's stance against OOXML more practical than political, developer says

12/20/2007  
Relevance: 6.75
In the recent accusations that the GNOME Foundation has been supporting Microsoft's OOXML format at the expense of ODF, KDE has been presented as a counter-example. Based on a KDE News article, Richard Stallman suggested that"major KDE developers" had announced"their rejection of OOXML" and urged GNOME to do the same. More recently, a widely linked story on ITWire used the same article to declare that KDE has taken a"principled stand" against OOXML. However, if you go the source, the story is more nuanced than these claims suggest.
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ODF vs. OOXML on the Eve of the BRM

01/18/2008  
Relevance: 6.66
If you're reading this blog entry, you've probably been following the battle between ODF and OOXML. If so, you may be thinking of that conflict as a classic standards war, but in fact, it goes much deeper than that label would suggest. What is happening between the proponents of ODF and OOXML is only a skirmish in a bigger battle that involves a fundamental reordering of forces, ideologies, stakeholders, and economics at the interface of society and information technology.
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The Mass. OOXML Announcement: What the Scribes Say

07/04/2007  
Relevance: 6.66
As you can imagine, yesterday's news that the Massachusetts Information Technology Division (ITD) may endorse Microsoft's OOXML (now Ecma 376) spread like wild fire among the journalists that have been covering the ODF/OOXML competition. As of nightfall the same day, a Google News search turned up 59 articles (many of which were reprints of the same, syndicated text).
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South Africa Files Official Appeal Re OOXML - OOXML in Limbo Now

05/24/2008  
Relevance: 6.59
Andy Updegrove has the news that South Africa has filed an official appeal, protesting the approval of OOXML, and the action means that OOXML is now in limbo until the appeal is decided. I wonder if this is why Microsoft suddenly decided to support ODF, to avoid being shut out completely pending the appeal. Might other national bodies be considering doing the same thing? Stay tuned.
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OOXML to live in harmony with ODF?

02/19/2008  
Relevance: 6.55
The debate over the OOXML (Office Open XML) format and the competing ODF (open document format) is still alive and kicking, but Microsoft just wants everyone to get along. The software giant had been lobbying for its OOXML format's ratification as an ISO standard at a ballot resolution meeting in Geneva later this month, after a failed attempt in September last year.
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ISO, IEC reject appeals, approve OOXML spec

08/17/2008  
Relevance: 6.46
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) have given the green light to publish the Microsoft-backed Office Open XML (OOXML) specification after organization leaders rejected appeals from four countries to protest the vote that approved OOXML as a standard.
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