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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.
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Microsoft to standardize Office formats
November 21, 2005
Office's 12 XML-based file formats will be submitted to European standards body Ecma International.
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AMD details Pacifica virtualization plan
May 25, 2005
Company releases full details of technology that will let computers run multiple operating systems more easily.
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Microsoft backs off music player squeeze
October 20, 2005
Company drops plan that would have forced music device makers to give up rival software.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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World Wide Web Consortium releases draft of HTML 5
January 25, 2008
A major upgrade of HTML is in the works but won't emerge for at least two years.
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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.
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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.
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Microsoft-led project to deliver on ODF
October 13, 2006
First converter between Microsoft Word and OpenDocument format set for release later this month.
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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.
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Heavies float data center standard
July 31, 2006
Microsoft leads proposal for XML-based model to share performance information between disparate resources.
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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.
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