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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. TAGS: XML, adoption, standards, enterprise, health care, insurance, standard, information technology, health

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, Microsoft Office, XML, Massachusetts, policy, standards, state, document, Microsoft Corp., information technology

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, Kazakhstan, standards, ECMA, OpenOffice, letter, XML, IBM Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: patent, Stephen O'Grady, XML, adoption, standards, open standard, intellectual property, antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Web service, Europe, document, Microsoft Word, software company, U.S.

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. TAGS: standards body, standards, Macromedia Inc., Microsoft Office, Perl, XML, research company, software company, document, 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, B2B, standards, IBM Corp., Oracle Corp., vision, Sun Microsystems Inc., software company, Microsoft Corp., HP, Microsoft Windows

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. TAGS: Liberty Alliance, Web service, member, standards, Adobe Systems Inc., XML

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., document, Microsoft Office, standards, XML, 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, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, state, Office 12, Microsoft Office, procurement, Governor, standards, XML, standard, decision, office, Microsoft Corp., format, agency

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. TAGS: Web Services Security, Web Services Interoperability Organization, OASIS, SAML, Web service, specification, security standard, interoperability, standards, protocol, XML, industry standard, business application, security

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: OpenDocument Format, standardization, IBM Corp., procurement, XML, standards, letter, representative, general manager, Microsoft Office, format, activity, document, Microsoft Corp.

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, state, XML, OpenOffice, agency, standards, open source, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp., document, format, Microsoft Office, IBM Corp.

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. TAGS: UBL, ebXML, OASIS, Web Services Interoperability Organization, XML, Web service, standards, IBM Corp., e-commerce, organization, document

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. TAGS: TIBCO Software Inc., BEA Systems Inc., Web service, specification, Simple Object Access Protocol, standards, IBM Corp., middleware, event, business application, messaging, XML, Microsoft Corp.

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, standards, OpenOffice, Novell Inc., Microsoft Office, open source, blog, attorney, XML, 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, OASIS, standards, forum, productivity-application, senator, standard, Microsoft Office, IBM Corp., state, decision, information technology, XML, vice president, Sun Microsystems Inc.

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. TAGS: Web service, application integration, interoperability, XML, Microsoft Longhorn, standards, software company, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., server, Microsoft Windows

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. TAGS: portlet, portal, Java Specification Request, Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc., Java, Java server, standards, XML, Web browser

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