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Readers with good memories may remember various key fights over the years that were largely about ODF and OOXML. The first round culminat...

Today is Document Freedom Day : It is a day for celebrating and raising awareness of Open Standards and formats which takes place on ...

A couple of weeks ago, I was reviewing Spain's move to open standards. The good news is that elsewhere on the Iberian peninsular, ...

As we know, lock-in is one of the biggest obstacles to moving from closed, proprietary formats, to open ones. But so far as I know, no o...

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 ...

As you may have noticed, open standards are a hot topic currently. One person who deals with them all the time in a variety of ways is Ch...

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

In yesterday's post about Microsoft's lobbying of the Cabinet Office against truly open standards based on RF licensing, I spent...

A couple of days ago I wrote about the deal between the regional government of Puglia and Microsoft, noting that it was frustrating that we...

Although I don't use it much myself, I've heard that Facebook is quite popular in some quarters. This makes its technological moves ...

Long-time readers of this blog will recall the bitter fight over the submission of Microsoft's OOXML formats to the ISO. To the dismay o...

Remember the browser ballot screen that Microsoft agreed to add as part of its settlement with the EU over competition issues? It's happ...

It has been a sad spectacle to see the British Library – without doubt once the greatest library in the world, and hence a powerful force fo...

It's hard to believe that there was such sound and fury when OOXML was being pushed through the ISO process. At the time, it seemed like...

One of the key moments in the rise of open source was when Massachusetts announced that it was adopting an open standards policy for documen...

Remember Open Office XML – a name chosen to be as confusingly close to OpenOffice XML as possible – better known as OOXML? Remember how just...

One of the great things about free software is that it transcends politics. Those on the left love it because it is a collaborative effort, ...

One of the running themes on this blog is the importance of engaging with the powers that be, specifically through responding to government ...

One of the biggest barriers to introducing new, open formats like ODF is the lock-in of platforms to Microsoft's dominant Office formats...

Great news for ODF in Brazil: it's becoming the official format for storing government agency dox: Já no passado mês de Abril de 2008, ...