More than a year ago ECMA International handed over Office Open XML to ISO/IEC for ratification. During January and February 2007, a Danish committee was formed under Danish Standards and started working with the text of Open XML. It hardly a secret that from the very first day the committees aroun...
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Once more Patrick Durusau (below) reflects on the Open XML ballot, separating facts from fiction and concluding that whatever you might feel about the process and remaining shortcoming of Open XML, SC34 is the obvious and only real place to fix those issues going forward. I agree. A couple of times ...
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Yet another example of Open XML being adopted across a multitude of products and platforms. Apache POI support for Office Open XML is currently being developed. Release is expected during the second quarter of 2008.
The following testimony was given to the U.S. House of Representatives in the Committee on Science and Technology during the hearing on Competitiveness and Innovation on the Committee’s 50th Anniversary. Transscript: MR. BAIRD: Thank you. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Gates, thank you for your comments. I just...
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In the lastest posting from Patrick Durusau, the editor of ODF, supports the approval of Open XML (DIS2900): As a non-attendee to the BRM on DIS 29500, I have been trying to sort out fact from fiction in thehighly imaginative accounts of the meeting. I have been able to isolate only one common poin...
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Hvilken toneart beskriver bedst hvad Morten Kjærsgaard (Formand for OSL, der tæller medlemmer som IBM, Oracle og Sun) mener om Open XML og ISO-processen? Hvis man lytter til Mortens udtalelser fra ISO-afstemningen i september 2007, eller på udtalelserne umiddelbart inden BRM i Geneve og så nu her u...
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Dansk Den 1. marts 2008, lørdag eftermiddag, landede jeg igen i Kastrup lufthavn efter at have tilbragt en spændende uge i Geneve, hvor jeg deltog på ISO/IEC JTC 1 Ballot Resolution Meeting sammen med den øvrige danske delegation. Mødet var i utrolig spændende og bød gentagende gange på hjemmearbej...
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