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Microsoft's amusing standards stance

February 22, 2007 Opera Software's Håkon Wium Lie says Microsoft's recent letter about IBM undermining standards contradicts its own track record. TAGS: SGML, OpenDocument Format, standards, ECMA, XML, letter, OpenOffice, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

XML as the great peacemaker

December 21, 2000 Extensible Markup Language accomplished the seemingly impossible this year: It brought bitter software enemies together to speak the same tongue. TAGS: Ariba Inc., XML, standards, Oracle Corp., IBM Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., vision, Microsoft Corp., HP, Microsoft Windows

Microsoft document formats gain Mass. favor

July 2, 2007 Proposed technical guidelines include Microsoft's Office Open XML on the list of "open format" standards. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, agency, XML, Massachusetts, Microsoft Office, standards, policy, state, document, Microsoft Corp., information technology

IBM sits out Office document standards effort

December 21, 2005 Big Blue won't participate in an international committee that is standardizing Microsoft Office document formats. TAGS: ECMA, OpenDocument Format, committee, IBM Corp., standards, Microsoft Office, XML, document, vice president, open source, Microsoft Corp.

Mass. warms to Microsoft Office standard

November 28, 2005 After picking OpenDocument as a standard, commonwealth is "optimistic" that standardized Office formats will pass muster. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, procurement, Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, state, Office 12, standards, XML, Microsoft Office, standard, Governor, agency, format, decision, Microsoft Corp., information technology

Massachusetts to adopt 'open' desktop

September 1, 2005 State intends to phase out office applications from Microsoft and others in favor of software based on "open" standards. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Massachusetts, Peter Quinn, XML, state, agency, standards, OpenOffice, open source, Adobe PDF, document, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., format, Microsoft Office

Microsoft calls IBM hypocritical on document standards

February 14, 2007 Redmond publishes open letter accusing Big Blue of blocking ISO from considering Office Open XML as document standard. TAGS: standardization, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., procurement, standards, representative, XML, general manager, letter, Microsoft Office, activity, document, Microsoft Corp., format

Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead

December 7, 2006 Standards vote could boost its Office document format in high-stakes race for desktop prominence. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Novell Inc., standards, desktop software, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, XML, attorney, blog, open source, Microsoft Corp., document, Linux

Massachusetts says it's open to multiple formats

December 14, 2005 State senators air the issues around its decision to use OpenDocument as the default desktop application format. TAGS: OpenDocument Format, Massachusetts, standards, OASIS, productivity-application, IBM Corp., senator, standard, XML, vice president, state, Microsoft Office, information technology, decision, Sun Microsystems Inc., forum

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, patent, open-source software, open source, open-source community, specification, royalty, Apache Software Foundation, standards, GPL, FAQ, developer, concern, lawyer, Microsoft Corp., XML
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