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InternetNews December 7, 2006 Michael Hickins	Microsoft Office Open XML Sparks Standards Fight The Ecma standards organization approved Microsoft's document format, opening the door for certification by ISO, which has already approved a competing standard.
InternetNews February 7, 2007 Michael Hickins	Microsoft's New Standard Stumbles The Open Office XML format that Microsoft has proposed may not get speedy approval from the International Organization for Standardization after all.
InternetNews May 21, 2007 Clint Boulton	Microsoft, China Translate Files in Open Source Microsoft today said it is funding an open source translator project between China's Unified Office Format and the Ecma Open XML file formats.
InternetNews February 25, 2008	Microsoft Gets Another Shot at Open XML Standard Two-thirds majority needed as international delegates meet again on software company's proposal.
InternetNews December 5, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Open to Office Docs IBM will support the Open Document format in its Workplace Managed Client software next year.
InternetNews February 15, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft 'Frees' Office Formats Microsoft places code and specs for its old Office binary file formats under its "no lawsuit" program; begins open source project.
InternetNews July 3, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Massachusetts to OK Microsoft OpenXML Formats Massachusetts' Information Technology Division published its proposal mandating the use of open formats for all public documents, and included Microsoft's Office Open XML on the list as well as the OpenDocument Format.
InternetNews February 28, 2007 Michael Hickins	Microsoft Closer on 'Office Open' Blessing Microsoft is one step closer to having its Office Open XML format adopted as an international standard in short order.
InternetNews September 28, 2004 Michael Singer	Open Office XML May Satisfy ISO A letter to Sun Microsystems' COO Jonathan Schwartz by the European Commission this week may set the stage for the International Organization for Standardization to adopt the Open Office XML format as an ISO standard.
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Information Today November 28, 2005 Richard W. Wiggins	British Library and Others Join Microsoft in Document Standards Effort Seeking to promote digital preservation of documents composed in Microsoft Office formats, the British Library and a number of other enterprises have joined Microsoft's effort to define a new standard for Office Open XML.
InternetNews May 23, 2005 Jim Wagner	A Standard Set For The Office Officials at the non-profit standards body OASIS, announced its approval of the OpenDocuments 1.0 specification as a standard XML format for text, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents.
InternetNews March 11, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	U.S. Likely to Re-affirm OOXML Vote The committee that advises the U.S. delegation to the International Organization for Standardization, which last fall voted to approve Microsoft's bid to make Office Open XML an ISO standard, has decided not to change its vote to 'disapprove.'
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CIO February 1, 2007 Elizabeth Montalbano	Project Makes Web More Accessible to the Blind IBM has developed a set of application programming interfaces collectively called IAccessible2 which make it easy for visuals in applications based on ODF and other Web technologies to be interpreted by screen readers that reproduce information verbally.
InternetNews March 21, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	OOXML Stalemate May Lead to Cliff-Hanger Ending Microsoft officials confirmed that India will not change its vote against approval of OOXML as an ISO standard.
InternetNews August 7, 2009	A Ballot for Microsoft Office Users In Europe? Office may let users choose to set the default to save files in either ODF or OOXML.
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Jim Wagner	Microsoft Wants Open XML as Doc Standard Redmond modifies the license for its Office Open XML file format and pushes for standards adoption.
InternetNews September 12, 2005 Jim Wagner	Open Season in Massachusetts Expect short-term pain before long-term gain with the commonwealth's proposed switch to the OpenDocument standard.
InternetNews September 4, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Office Formats Defeated in First ISO Vote The vote tally over the weekend appears to show Microsoft's Office Open XML formats did not receive enough votes to be approved by ISO.
InternetNews August 2, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Massachusetts Adopts Office Open XML Despite negative comments, Massachusetts decides that Microsoft's Office formats will share "open" standard status with ODF.
InternetNews July 20, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	Office Open XML Standards Push Not Dead Yet A U.S. body is to vote on a standards status for Microsoft's document formats despite earlier deadlock by a consideration committee.
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Michael Hickins	Microsoft Standard-Bearer Faces Tight Deadline Ecma International has its work cut out if it still hopes to fast-track Microsoft's Open Office XML format.
InternetNews March 13, 2007 Michael Hickins	Microsoft Speeds Toward Office Standard Approval Microsoft is today one step closer to seeing its Office Open XML format anointed as a standard.
CIO April 1, 2006 Susannah Patton	A Win for Microsoft in Massachusetts? The battle to convert Massachusetts government to an open source format, and phase out MS Office, cost the state's CIO his job and scared other government CIOs.
InternetNews December 4, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Novell Joins Microsoft in ODF Effort Six months after the initiative gets under way, Novell is lending its expertise to getting Open XML support into OpenOffice.org.
InternetNews September 10, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	IBM Joins OpenOffice Group, Contributes Code The time may finally be right for OpenOffice to make headway against Microsoft's Office "hegemony," so IBM is adding its weight to the putsch.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2008 Anders Bylund	The Fall of Microsoft Office It will be long, slow, and painful, and Redmond won't know how to stop it.
InternetNews April 1, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	It's Unofficial: OOXML Wins Microsoft says it has learned the results of ISO ballot changes and declares itself the winner.
InternetNews March 27, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Czechs Support OOXML - Will Others? Clock is ticking on ISO standards vote and Microsoft is counting.
InternetNews April 2, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Could an Appeal Derail OOXML? Despite a victorious vote count, the OOXML battle may not be over.
Information Today July 7, 2008	PDF Format Becomes ISO Standard This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems, Inc., original developer and copyright owner of the format, to relinquish control to ISO (International Organization for Standardization.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2008 Anders Bylund	Microsoft's Latest Kiss of Death But this time, "embrace, extend, extinguish" might not work.
InternetNews August 28, 2007 Stuart J. Johnston	U.S. Will Vote 'Yes' on OOXML Microsoft will get the U.S.'s vote on its pitch to make Office Open XML an International Organization for Standardization standard.
InternetNews April 28, 2009 Stuart J. Johnston	BizTalk 2009 Arrives, Office 2007 SP2 Up Next Microsoft's software elves have been busy turning out product updates for release this week.
InternetNews April 7, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	EC Investigates OOXML 'Process' Microsoft's ISO win with OOXML falls under the European Commission's magnifying glass.
InternetNews January 18, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	Microsoft Defends OOXML In the run up to a final standards determination for its Office Open XML file formats, Microsoft makes its case.
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InternetNews February 29, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	OOXML Meeting Wraps Up -- Who Won? A crucial meeting on the future of Microsoft's OOXML file formats wrapped up Friday, but what actually transpired is still a matter for debate.
Linux Journal February 1, 2007 Marcel Gagne	Cooking with Linux - Words, Words, Words... When it comes to being understood and sharing information, it's not just about open source, it's about open standards.
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InternetNews February 8, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston	More EC Troubles for Microsoft? The European Commission is reportedly looking into whether Microsoft's standards-setting behavior is anti-competitive.
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