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W3C releases new HTML specification

May 8, 1996 The World Wide Web Consortium released a new HTML specification that officially recognizes features developed by Microsoft and Netscape Communications. TAGS: specification, HTML, Netscape Communications Corp., Web browser, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft to standardize Office formats

November 21, 2005 Office's 12 XML-based file formats will be submitted to European standards body Ecma International. TAGS: ECMA, Office 12, standards body, XML, Microsoft Office, IBM Corp., representative, specification, document, Microsoft Corp., open source, format

AMD details Pacifica virtualization plan

May 25, 2005 Company releases full details of technology that will let computers run multiple operating systems more easily. TAGS: AMD Pacifica, virtualization, XenSource Inc., Intel Itanium, AMD, VMware, specification, Intel, operating system, server, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft backs off music player squeeze

October 20, 2005 Company drops plan that would have forced music device makers to give up rival software. TAGS: device manufacturer, music player, antitrust, spokeswoman, specification, media player, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, CD

Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test

April 21, 2008 Test shows that Word documents generated by today's version of Office 2007 don't conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the ISO. (By Peter Judge of ZDNet UK) TAGS: Alex Brown, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, XML, OpenDocument Format, Judge, specification, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Corp., blog, open source

Adobe to send PDF to standards group

January 29, 2007 The Portable Document Format, already a de facto standard, will be headed to the ISO for formal standardization. TAGS: Kevin Lynch, standardization, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, specification, OpenDocument Format, government, Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft gives go-ahead to open-source Web services

September 13, 2006 Company won't assert patents related to 35 Web services specs--a move designed to ease developers' legal concerns. TAGS: Web service, open-source community, patent, open-source software, open source, royalty, specification, Apache Software Foundation, standards, GPL, FAQ, developer, concern, lawyer, XML, Microsoft Corp.

Sun and Microsoft: So far, so good

December 2, 2004 Firms say they've shed hard feelings and established a good collaboration. First product: common identity-management software. TAGS: Sun Microsystems Inc., collaboration, Web service, specification, Bill Gates, Sun Solaris, agreement, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., server, Microsoft Windows

Where's the simplicity in Web services?

October 5, 2004 As the number of Web services specifications proliferates, some developers advocate a return to a simpler approach. TAGS: Web service, specification, WSDL, BEA Systems Inc., Simple Object Access Protocol, XML, application development, XML document, simplicity, protocol, approach, HTTP, IBM Corp., IP, method, security

British standards body mum on OOXML vote

September 4, 2007 The British Standards Institution won't divulge who's on its technical committee or discuss the outcome of its vote on OOXML. TAGS: Free Software Foundation, committee, specification, standard, XML, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

Dueling tech blueprints vie for standard

April 19, 2005 IBM, Microsoft, other biggies submit standards proposal for a Web-services-focused reliable-messaging spec. But a standard already exists. TAGS: WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Reliability, OASIS, technical committee, BEA Systems Inc., specification, author, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft-led project to deliver on ODF

October 13, 2006 First converter between Microsoft Word and OpenDocument format set for release later this month. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, ECMA, technical committee, XML, converter, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office 2007, specification, project, format, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.

U.K. standards body taken to court over OOXML

May 1, 2008 Group launches court challenge against decision by British Standards Institution to approve Microsoft's nascent document format. TAGS: standards body, OpenDocument Format, decision-making, approval, consortium, decision, specification, XML, open source, U.K., document, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office

Heavies float data center standard

July 31, 2006 Microsoft leads proposal for XML-based model to share performance information between disparate resources. TAGS: systems management, management software, standards body, data center, network monitoring, IBM Corp., XML, modeling, development tool, specification, standard, vice president, server, Microsoft Corp., HP

Antispam spec sets off on path to standard

July 11, 2005 Yahoo, Cisco and partners have submitted DomainKeys Identified Mail, which helps verify the sender of a message, to a standards body. TAGS: DomainKeys, e-mail authentication, Sender ID, Cisco Systems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., e-mail security, submission, anti-spam, specification, representative, signature, phishing, e-mail server, key, e-mail, message
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