christian.einfeldt writes "In August of 2007, the State of New York passed legislation requiring its CIO, Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, to gather information on the advantages and disadvantages of adopting either ODF or OOXML as a document standard, and to... ...full story at slashdot
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| 28 Oct 07 |
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GNOME Foundation Helping OOXML? » slashdot christian.einfeldt writes "According to long-time OpenDocument Fellowship member Russell Ossendryver, it appears that GNOME founder Miguel de Icaza's widely-publicized praise for OOXML as a 'superb standard' is being followed up with on-going support by... |
| 15 Sep 07 |
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Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML » digg Google welcomes the ISO decision to not approve the fast track of Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed standard DIS 29500 (ECMA 376).Our engineers conducted an independent analysis of the OOXML specification and found several areas of concern, which we... |
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ISO Approves OOXML » slashdot sTeF writes in, with the hope that this is an April Fools joke. Doesn't look like it though. An article up at Intellectual Property Watch claims to have obtained a document (PDF) enumerating the vote after Microsoft's OOXML won ISO standard status.Read... |
| 18 Sep 07 |
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Google Pleased With ISO OOXML Decision » slashdot yogi writes "In a blog post from this Friday past, Google welcomed the ISO decision not to fasttrack OOXML. They also (once again) voiced their public support for the ODF standard. 'Technical standards should be arrived at transparently, openly, and based... |
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ODF Editor Says ODF Loses If OOXML Does » slashdot An anonymous reader writes "The editor of the Open Document Format standard has written a letter (PDF) that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's OOXML file format as a standard, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer. 'As the editor of... |
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