An interesting (if long) blog today by Andy Updegrove A Proposal to Recognize the Need for “Civil ICT Standards”. This week’s discussions in Geneva about Microsoft’s request to ISO to approve a second standard for office documents has generated more heat than light in the technical press. Andy takes a philosophical spin on the issue [...]
BECTA, the UK government’s education technology agency, has today made a complaint to the UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) for alleged anti-competitive practices by Microsoft. BECTA has two bones to pick with Microsoft: Microsoft offers cut-price software licences for UK schools, but insists that schools must buy Microsoft licences for every PC in the [...]
There’s a Press Release just been released to announce that IBM are joining the OpenOffice.org community: The OpenOffice.org community today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate on the development of OpenOffice.org software. IBM will be making initial code contributions that it has been developing as part of its Lotus Notes product, [...]
Can the standards process stand up against powerful commercial interests?
Microsoft caught offering financial inducements to voters to try and get OOXML adopted by ISO
The OpenOffice.org community receive occasional emails from grateful Microsoft Office users. Somehow, Microsoft Office has corrupted critical documents and can no longer open them. However, the users have been able to open the documents in OpenOffice.org and save themselves hours of work. It’s nice to see this anecdotal evidence confirmed by Microsoft experts: When “Open and [...]
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