Another Microsoft watcher joins Microsoft | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
"IT market watcher Peter O’Kelly has joined a number of other former industry analysts who’ve taken the Red Pill and joined Microsoft over the past few years. O’Kelly — a former Burton Group analyst who, more recently, was a self-employed IT watcher — announced on his blog on January 5 that he had decided to become a Microsoft employee."
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Norwegian standards body implodes over OOXML controversy
"Fallout from the OOXML controversy continues to be felt around the world. ISO is facing a revolt from dissatisfied participants who feel that their technical input was ignored, and national standards bodies from various countries are suffering internal friction over alleged misconduct. The implosion of the Standards Norway technical committee reflects the ongoing turmoil created by the ambiguity surrounding ISO's approval of OOXML."
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Groklaw - The Microsoft-Stacked SC 34 Committee Makes a Move
"Guess what the SC 34 committee, the ISO/IEC committee responsible for OOXML, is up to now? I call it a takeover attempt of ODF, according to my reading of the published notes of the most recent meeting held yesterday, October 1st, and starring a document titled "Request to JTC 1 for alignment of OASIS and JTC 1 Maintenance Procedures." Uh oh. That sounds polite, but it is what it is. An attempted coup."
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Metamorphosis - Sweden: ODF made national standard
"SIS CEO Lars Flink explains that in August 2007, SIS decided to abstain from voting on OOXML at ISO, after finding out some of the members in its OOXML committee had voted more than once. "Also, at the day of the vote, the SIS committee had also gotten between 25 and 27 new members, most of which were in favour of OOXML. At the time, our rules allowed such late-comers at the time. We have changed those rules." Since April of this year, organisations that want to vote on standards at SIS, must have been a member for at least three weeks, Flink says. "They must be a participant in the standard committee when we send out the documents, which is three weeks ahead of the vote." Flink did not know how many of the organisations that joined the OOXML vote at the last minute were still members. "I know a number of them have dropped membership.""
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What Do The ISO And The NBA Have In Common? - David Berlind's Tech Radar - InformationWeek
"My post here isn't to say which ISO standard better or worse: OOXML or ODF. But, with the ISO's approval of OOXML as a standard for the same thing that the ISO-ratified ODF does, the ISO is now getting outted for the way its practices could plunge it into irrelevancy."
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PC World - Business Center: Nations Question ISO's Merit Following Dropped OOXML Appeals
"In a statement made at the Congresso Internacional Sociedade e Governo Electronico (CONSEGI) 2008 conference, representatives from three of the four countries that appealed against an April 1 vote to approve OOXML as a standard -- Brazil, South Africa and Venezuela -- said they are "no longer confident" in the ability of both the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to be vendor-neutral and open when it comes to setting technology standards."
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CORRECTED - ISO Microsoft vote sparks dissent amid IT bodies | Reuters
"A decision to dismiss appeals against the controversial fast-track approval of a Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) document format has provoked six national IT bodies to question the relevance of global standards-setting body ISO."
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An Antic Disposition: Giving the Finger to the DIS 29500 Appellants
"The news broke on Friday, with the ISO press release, and additional coverage and analysis by Andy Updegrove and on Groklaw. But it would be remiss if I did not share a few details on how, true to form, the end of this DIS 29500 process was botched."
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Open Source India: ISO/IEC and OOXML: The judge, the jury and the hangman
"Creating an alternate standards organization will be an exceedingly tough task, but standards are not an area where compromises can be tolerated. Standards govern our lives in a million different ways and the common man and woman deserve to have their standards created in an open, transparent manner that benefits everyone. Let me know what you think of the idea of creating an open standards organization for the benefit of the emerging economies."
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ISO is being challenged « Arnaud’s Open blog
"Like many people I’ve been appalled by the way ISO officials are trying to dismiss the appeals filed against the way OOXML was processed. Once more I’ve discovered a new aspect of the ISO process which has left me puzzled."
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Interfax China - Evermore launches first UOF-based office application
"The application integrates word, data sheet and presentation document processing into one piece of software. In addition to handling UOF standard files, the application is also compatible with Microsoft Office's OOXML (Office Open XML) standard and the international document standard ODF (Open Document Format), the PR manager said."
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Groklaw - ISO Document: South Africa's Appeal, as text
Regarding the OOXML appeal to ISO/IEC.
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Groklaw - The ISO Document: India's and Venezuela's Appeals, as text - Updated with comments chart
Regarding the OOXML appeal to ISO/IEC.
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Groklaw - The ISO Document: Brazil's Appeal and ISO/IEC's Attachments 1 & 2 - as text
Regarding the OOXML appeal to ISO/IEC.
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Get Microsoft vote in perspective, says ISO chief | Technology | Reuters
Worth reading, if only to understand attitude and whether they "get" the problem.
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Document standards row heats up - 13 Jun 2008 - Computing
"Standards body the Open Document Format (ODF) Alliance closed ranks with the European Commission (EC) against Microsoft today, issuing a statement applauding the commission's vociferous endorsement of the ODF standard in an effort to avoid vendor lock-in on document formats."
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Tectonic » ‘The era of closed formats is dead’
"The South African e-documentation workgroup is hosting a number of the world’s most influential XML and open standards activists at the “XML in Government Workshop” next week. One of the key figures behind the event - and indeed behind much of the XML and digital standards work in South Africa - is Bob Jolliffe. A member of the South African department of science and technology, a founder of Freedom to Innovate South Africa (FTISA), and someone who has spent the best part of the past year arguing the merits and demerits of OOXML, he explains here how far the movement to open standards and XML in government has progressed."
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Application Development Trends - EC Official Talks Open Standards, Raps Microsoft
"Kroes' position echoes that of groups like the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, an advisor to the U.K. government on technology issues, which has weighed in on supporting interoperability and given the thumbs down to using Office 2007. Other groups, such as the Canadian Library Association, have adopted a similar view on avoiding OOXML."
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Choice, Innovation and… Appeal? | Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards
"Perhaps one of the most overlooked aspect of the whole OOXML story is the financial side of the issue. When everything is said and done, one legitimate question coming from the Microsoft shareholders will be about the ratio between the resources wasted (and as of resources, you can include not just money, but also the wasted time, roadmaps, and of course public image) and the final outcome. This ratio is, I think, unfavourable to Microsoft and shareholders tend to be … demanding , to put it mildly."
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InternetNews Realtime IT News - Microsoft Taps Legal Czar Amid EU, OOXML Woes
"Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced Monday it has hired a former European diplomat to lead its dealings with the European Union (EU). The company's aim is to help the company face down legal and regulatory threats, among which are investigations regarding its controversial document interchange formats."
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