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XML--Rodney, are we there yet?
December 14, 2003
The acceptance and respectability of XML seems assured, but Software AG's William Ruh warns of potential bumps in the road ahead.
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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.
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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.
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Microsoft balances patents, standards
February 3, 2004
Recent XML-related patents illustrate the software giant's balancing act between supporting open standards and profiting from its inventions.
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When standards don't apply
June 29, 2004
A growing roster of de facto standards is testing the need for bureaucratic agencies and design-by-committee technologies.
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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.
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Liberty Alliance captures seven new members
October 18, 2004
PDF developer Adobe is among the new allies of the group, which promotes identity standards for Web services.
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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.
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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.
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Web services security spec locked down
April 7, 2004
XML standards body OASIS ratifies WS-Security as a standard, considered a milestone in making Web services a viable alternative to proprietary security systems.
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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.
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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.
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Web business standard gets thumbs up
November 9, 2004
The ratification of Universal Business Language could make it easier for big companies to share documents.
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Microsoft teams on Web services spec
January 8, 2004
The software giant, along with BEA Systems and Tibco, releases a specification to handle the communication of events in Web services applications.
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Microsoft's document gambit moves ahead
December 7, 2006
Standards vote could boost its Office document format in high-stakes race for desktop prominence.
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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.
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Year in review: Web services finds its way
December 30, 2003
XML-based standards became the default system for sharing data in 2003, as companies and their customers adopted Web services to get the benefits of information access and interoperability.
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Oracle readies portal-building tools
November 19, 2003
The company releases an early version of a toolkit to speed up the process of building standards-based portal applications, or portlets.
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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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