22 May 2008

* MS Office 2007 will support ODF format

Here is one great news for both Office 2007 and ODF format. SP2 of Office 2007 will bring in ODF support to Office 2007. With the release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) scheduled for the first half of 2009, Office 2007 will additionally... (posted on 22 May 2008 by .NET with me - Vikas Goyal)

22 May 2008

Microsoft opens itself to ODF and PDF and XPS and even OASIS

It's IT Blogwatch in which Microsoft suddenly supports open document standards. And there doesn't appear to be a lawsuit or a judgment lurking behind the decision. Not to mention a whole lotta LEGOs ... read more (posted on 22 May 2008 by IT Blogwatch)

21 May 2008

OOXML gets dumped… By Microsoft!

If true, this is a quite startling turn of events in the OOXML/Office 2007 saga (emphasis mine). Today, Microsoft announced that it was making new commitments to document interoperability within its Office product line for Windows. Office 2007 Service... (posted on 21 May 2008 by The Open Sourcerer)

21 May 2008

Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF - and not OOXML

Microsoft today announced that it would update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to implement its own OOXML format.  Moreover, it would also join both the OASIS working group as well as the ISO/IEC JTC1 working group that has control of... (posted on 21 May 2008 by Standards Blog)

5 Apr 2008

Vendor Escalation, Process Politicalization, and What Needs to Happen Next

Once upon a time, most standards were set in a largely collegial atmosphere by career professionals who met in face to face meetings over a period of years.  As a result, they got to know each other as individuals, and established individual... (posted on 5 Apr 2008 by Standards Blog)

28 Mar 2008

The Future of ODF and OOXML

Tomorrow is the last day that a National Body (NB) can change its vote on OOXML.  Only a few NBs have announced what they have decided, and of those, not enough have changed their votes to reverse the outcome of last summer, in which DIS 29500 (a/k/a... (posted on 28 Mar 2008 by Standards Blog)

27 Feb 2008

Google Recommends ISO Reject Open XML

Zaheda Bhorat, Google’s manager of open source programs, is urging international delegates to vote to reject Microsoft Office 2007’s Open XML as an international standard when the ISO votes this week. Google is firmly behind ODF, the document format... (posted on 27 Feb 2008 by InsideMicrosoft)

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