OOXML Fails ISO Approval!
After several late nights in Geneva consuming too much melted cheese and garlic infused bread, the ISO have decided that their bank account balances are just not that important to risk their...
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OOXML (DIS29500) Result: Approved
It’s been leaked… ISO is furthermore an irrelevance in technology standardisation. Here’s the full file with the votes for DIS29500 Update: Hello Slashdot, and thanks Bytemark for helping us cope with...
View ArticleOOXML: Canada SAYS what everyone else thinks
Wow. Damming, direct and demeaning… ISO/IEC DIS 29500 OOXML Fast Track Canadian Final Position Statement Canada has carefully reviewed the results of the ISO/IEC DIS 29500 OOXML Fast Track Ballot...
View ArticleFormal Appeal against OOXML filed by South Africa
Things are really hotting up again… Just when I thought we could get on with our day jobs we have Microsoft doing the biggest U-turn since – well – since the last massive U-Turn, and now we have SABS,...
View ArticleISO gives up on IT Standards: approves OOXML
So, as everyone thought would happen, the naive and sycophantic ISO and IEC bodies have decided to ignore the appeals, the scandalous bribery and corruption of their hitherto decent standing and...
View ArticleISO/IEC officially redundant and history
Thanks to Andy Updegrove for bringing this to our attention. CONSEGI 2008 DECLARATION We, the undersigned representatives of state IT organisations from Brazil, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador, Cuba...
View ArticleOOXML: Flogging a Dead Horse
I am continually amazed by the amount of time, energy and expense that the ISO are going to to support the standard that nobody really wants or believes (in except for one corporation and it’s paid...
View ArticleOOXML Fataly Flawed?
Thanks to Roy’s tenacity and constant vigilance, I have learned how it now appears the MS Office binary format that is wrapped in XML and is now known as IS 29500 (OOXML), an ISO Standard Office...
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On the ‘Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan’
As anyone interested in the politics and wider adoption of FOSS will know by now, the UK Government recently released an updated policy statement regarding “Open Source and Open Standards”. I made a...
View ArticleOOXML: Nobody knows (or cares) what it is for or why.
I’ve not penned much on OOXML for quite a while mainly because there really doesn’t seem to be much interest in it outside of a small circle of Microsoft lackeys and puppy dogs. Even MS themselves are...
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