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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...

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 ...

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...

Yesterday, Computerworld UK carried an interesting report headed “British Library explores research technologies of the future”. Here's ...

The importance of Mozilla and its Firefox browser went up a notch last week. For it was then that it became clear that Microsoft has little ...

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...

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...

Next week, I'm taking part in a debate with a Microsoft representative about the passage of the OOXML file format through the ISO proces...

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 things that disappoints me is the lack of understanding of what's at stake with open source among some of the other open comm...

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, ...

Interoperability has always been at the heart of the Open Solutions Alliance. Here's what it's first president, Dominic Sartorio, to...

Free software has tended to serve the leading edge of the computing community - hackers, etc. - first. General users have tended to follow l...

Nicht slecht : Der IT-Rat der Bundesregierung hat beschlossen, das offene Dokumentenformat ODF (ISO 26300) in der Bundesverwaltung schrittwe...

Last week I noted that the release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 seems to mark an important milestone in its adoption, judging at least by the healt...

Nothing shows better what is wrong with the ISO, and why we need to replace it with a new global standards organisation, than the following ...

One of the mysteries concerning Microsoft's attempts to deal with the threat ODF poses to its stranglehold on the office suite sector is...