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Microsoft: 'OOXML one of best things we've ever done'

Ahead of this month's ISO decision in Geneva on the status of the software giant's contentious Office Open XML format, a visiting executive from Microsoft has said its persistence with the format has been spurred on by customer demand. Read more »

South African government adopts ODF

The South African government said on Tuesday that it is to adopt Open Document Format as its preferred standard for software interoperability. Read more »

Microsoft OOXML becomes an ISO standard

Microsoft's bid to make the Open XML (OOXML) file formats international standards has succeeded, barring any last-minute changes. The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is scheduled to issue the official communique today. Read more »

United States set to vote 'yes' on OOXML

The US seems set to vote for Microsoft's Open XML (OOXML) file format be ratified as an international standard; the chair of its technical committee said opposition to the file format was based on spite and anti-Microsoft sentiment. Read more »

Open Source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind

Microsoft has helped develop an open source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format, which makes documents easily accessible by the 160 million people worldwide with impaired vision. Read more »

Microsoft CTO: ODF is an 'elegant' standard

The chief technology officer of Microsoft APAC thinks ODF is an elegant standard — if it is used alongside the Redmond giant's OOXML (Office Open XML) format. Read more »

Debate rages about the security risks of OOXML

Contrary to claims by the US Department of Defense that Office Open XML might lead to increased security concerns, vendor lock-in and backwards compatibility issues, Microsoft claims that OOXML resolves exactly these issues. Read more »

Microsoft OOXML 'standards' proposal thrown out

Microsoft has failed in its initial effort to fast-track the Office Open XML (OOXML) document file format as an international standard — but it will have another chance in early 2008. Read more »

IBM chides Microsoft over SOA

Big Blue claims Microsoft leans too hard on Windows-oriented, proprietary standards for its service-oriented architecture. Read more »

Microsoft stumbles in Open XML standards vote

Microsoft has failed in its initial effort to standardise its Office document file format. Read more »

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Microsoft not yet open for business

The most impressive aspect of Microsoft's statement on Thursday in favour of caring and sharing wasn't in anything the company said. It was the speed at which the world, or that part of it not in a commercial relationship with Microsoft, digested the information and replied: Heard it before. Not good enough. Read more »

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A mixed bag of Microsoft announcements

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- While the rest of the world was anticipating, observing and then critiquing the latest iPod releases, Microsoft made some big announcements this week. The news for Microsoft fans is mixed at best. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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