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This sounds good: I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs. E...

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Another corker here from Rob Weir on ISO's rather pathetic OOXML FAQ: To put it in more approachable terms, observe that Ecma-376, OOX...

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This is an extraordinary testimony to the havoc wrought by Microsoft on parts of ISO through its attempts to get OOXML (aka ECMA 376) fast-...

Classic Microsoft press release here on the OOXML decision under the upbeat heading "Strong Global Support for Open XML as It Enters F...

For all you Brits out there, something to ponder and then expatiate upon (nicely, mind): OpenXML is an ECMA standard which has been submitt...

It would have been more appropriate had this come out on April 1st : If you agree that Open XML should be approved as an ISO standard please...

I just love it when Microsoft feels moved to write one of its open (sic) letters. They are essentially corporate Freudian slips writ large,...

The publication of the first Halloween memo in 1998 was a pivotal moment in the history of free software. For the first time, it was clea...

Rob Weir has a characteristically sharp and original analysis of the recent approval by ECMA of Microsoft's Open Office XML: Thus the r...

I'm impressed: IBM has just stuck a dirty great clog in the engine of Microsoft's machinations to get its Office XML format adopte...