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Open standards has been a recurring theme here on Open Enterprise. It's also been the occasion of one of the most disgraceful U-turn...

Remember the bad old days when the UK government forced people to use Microsoft software in order to interact with it online? Remember h...

Update:  Maël Brunet has  pointed out  that the press release I linked to below is from 2011; what was actually  announced yesterday  was...

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

I've written a number of posts about Mozilla's rise and fall and rise: how it went from saving the open Web and open standards in...

There are so many parts to the institutions running the European Union that it's easy to lose sight of them all and their varied act...

As happened for last year, 2013 will doubtless see plenty of battles in the domains of open standards, copyright and software patents, bu...

If ACTA was the biggest global story of 2012, more locally there's no doubt that the UK government's consultation on open standa...

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

Last week I wrote a piece suggesting that FRAND is dying. It was written in the wake of the major UK decision on open standards, and wa...

Last week's big announcement by the UK government was principally about procurement, detailing the new rules that will apply when g...

In a huge win for open standards, open source and the public, the long-awaited UK government definition of open standards has come down ...

Neelie Kroes is not your average European Commissioner. Before she became the European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, her current post,...

As long-standing readers will know, alongside ACTA, the other main theme of this blog over the last year or so has been the battle for the ...

Something seems to be going on in the European Union. Over the next few weeks a range of really important debates and votes are taking p...

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...

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 my first two posts about Microsoft's lobbying against true open standards, I concentrated on a document sent to the Cabinet Office ...

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...