Showing posts with label cabinet office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cabinet office. Show all posts
10 June 2012

Last Chance to Save True Open Standards in UK

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Since today is a Bank Holidayin the UK, I hope that a few of you might take the opportunity to make a submission to the UK consultation on...
05 May 2012

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards IV

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Yesterday I looked at the first part of a long document that Microsoft sent the Cabinet Office in October last year. Here I'd like ...
27 April 2012

Does Microsoft Office Lock-in Cost the UK Government £500 Million?

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In may last column, I wrote about Microsoft's efforts last year to derail any possible adoption of ODF. That's very telling, bec...
18 April 2012

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards I

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Regular readers may recall that I was not a little taken aback by an astonishing U-turn performed by the Cabinet Office on the matter of o...
22 December 2011

UK Government Open Standards: The Great Betrayal of 2012

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Back in February of this year, I wrote about PPN 3/11, a Cabinet Office “Procurement Policy Note - Use of Open Standards when specifying ...
11 March 2011

Time to Break Out the Digital Quills Again...

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A couple of weeks ago I posted in full the near-final version of my submission to the UK Independent Review of "IP" and Growth (so...
01 March 2011

True Open Standards; Open Source Next?

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One of the ironies of this column, which appears in a UK title, and is about the use of open source software in large enterprises, is that t...
08 June 2007

The Power of (Open) Information

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Here's an important study , called The Power of Information , that is actually all about the power of *open* information: This is an unu...