05.15.08

Setting the Record Straight on OOXML and Silverblight [sic]

Posted in Deception, Formats, ISO, Java, Microsoft, Mono, Novell, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, SUN at 9:14 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Could Vote Rigging Get Any More Obvious Than This?

M any shameless deniers — spearheaded primarily through disinformation , which is notably disseminated by Microsoft — are out there continuing to rewrite history, badly. Let it be reiterated that the OOXML saga was so abundantly filled with corruption that setting up a page summarising it all is nearly impossible. There are …

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05.13.08

BECTA: OOXML Lock-in and Anti-Linux Abuses All Microsoft’s Fault

Posted in Antitrust, Europe, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Interoperability, Microsoft, Open XML at 12:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Not so fast, BECTA!

S everal months ago BECTA complained about OOXML, Windows Vista, and Microsoft Office 2007. It was not an issue of cost. This came after BECTA’s long and rather disturbing love affair with Microsoft . An accomplice claiming innocence?

It is interesting to find BECTA’s referral of an interoperability complaint [via Bob Sutor[ to the European Commission …

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05.08.08

Quote of the Day: OpenOffice.org Already Ahead of ODF 1.0, Microsoft Behind OOXML

Posted in Formats, Free/Libre Software, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard at 10:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

ODF is the future and OOXML is the past, claimed Bob Sutor last year

T here is a lot of disinformative fuss at the moment with people claiming that OpenOffice.org 3 “supports OOXML.” It does not. The word “supports” has an active — as opposed to a negative — connotation. In reality, OpenOffice.org is all about ODF. The OOXML filter/importes are intended to help with …

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05.07.08

Verdict: Microsoft’s OOXML is Not a Standard

Posted in ISO, Microsoft, Office Suites, Open XML, Windows at 7:38 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

So says the definition of a standard

R ob Weir has taken a look at some semantics and considered again what it is that the world calls a “standard”:

So, it is a document, a written description, not an embodiment in the form of a product, that is standardized. Its aims are the “achievement of optimum degree of order” and “promotion of optimum community benefits”, and it …

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05.05.08

Quick Mention: Latest OOXML Process Abuse Now Confirmed

Posted in ECMA, Formats, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, Standard at 2:55 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

E CMA, ISO and Microsoft are several days late by now. We mentioned this yesterday and it appears to be confirmed now by Rob Weir of IBM .

So the SC34 Secretariat should have distributed the “final DIS text” by March 29th, or at the very least, when the final ballot results on OOXML were known a few days later.

But that didn’t happen. Nothing. Silence. What is the hang …

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05.02.08

BSI Gets Sued After Microsoft’s OOXML Corruptions Worldwide

Posted in Africa, Antitrust, Courtroom, Europe, Law, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument, UNIX at 12:39 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

T he anticipated legal action against ISO has just begun, starting with the BSI. If you have been following this Web site for a while, then you probably know that there is plenty of concrete evidence of corruption around the world. Microsoft loves to vainly deny this , joined by ISO and business partners that send away semi-edited letter templates (it’s not a crime to deny and …

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04.25.08

Viewing Corel as the Lesson That Must Be Learned About OOXML

Posted in America, Antitrust, Corel, Europe, Microsoft, Novell, Office Suites, Open XML, OpenDocument at 3:24 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Why is Novell so blind ?

C orel was last mentioned earlier this week along with some background about the company's history when it comes to formats, Linux, and Microsoft . Is Corel collapsing at the moment, based on the news about its CEO resigning ?

The CEO of Corel Corp. plans to resign, two weeks after an investment firm that owns a majority stake in the Ottawa-based …

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04.21.08

Is Alex Brown Trying to Save His Job by Criticising Microsoft’s ‘Own’ OOXML?

Posted in ECMA, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, Patents at 3:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

I t has been no secret that Microsoft will never support OOXML . It was all just a hugely expensive routine done for marketing purposes , as Tim Bray rightly put it . In fact, many people knew this all along and ISO was warned. ISO was also warned about patent issues in OOXML . Did it listen, or did it ignore?

ISO’s damage control is becoming a little embarrassing if not …

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