Stories about: European Computer Manufacturers Association

With the non-decision from the ISO standards body last month on whether or not to adopt Microsoft OOXML (Open Office XML) file format as an industry standard and Microsoft's decision to release the OOXML SDK next month, the discussions over whether or not OOXML is worthy of being a standard is expected to become heated once again.

When we started working on the Bossies, we divided the broad Application Development group into many subcategories, including Language. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

With ISO's Sept. 2 voting deadline looming, the recently retired secretary general of Ecma International defended Microsoft's Office Open XML document format against fierce technical criticism.

Google has joined a U.S.-based lobbying group supporting the use of the OpenDocument file format (ODF).

Sun Microsystems Monday urged a Massachusetts state official to rethink an opinion that Microsoft's Open XML (Extensible Markup Language) meets the state's parameters for an acceptable open document format just because it has been submitted as an open standard.

Microsoft Monday said it will offer its Word, Excel and PowerPoint document formats as open standards, a move that could spark a war with technology rivals over standard document formats.

Plenty of corporate developers watched with great interest when Novell unveiled a road map for the open-source Mono project that it acquired with Ximian.