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• 75% approve in the States

  Just in: http://ballot.itic.org/itic/tallyvote.taf?function=vote&committee=INCITS&ballot_id=2341&_UserReference=96EBDF227BF339D246CE4E20 It appears that the INCITS will move to vote Approve with Comments. The latest ballot resulted in 12 approves, Read More... Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 10:21 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• Germany to vote 'approve with comments'

  From Hans Bos: http://vacant.spaces.live.com/default.aspx and he finishes: So Germany is aiming to have its cake and eat it too: approve on the standard and having it's comments addressed. I wish we did... and for the German speaking crowd: http://www.din.de/cmd?level=tpl-artikel&menuid=47392&cmsareaid=47392&cmsrubid=47533&menurubricid=47533&cmstextid=64985&2&languageid=d Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 8:24 PM by wouterv | 2 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• Gnumeric not able to open a spreadsheet?

  One of the things I mentioned is that there are implementations of Open XML right now, and more will come in the future. An example is Gnumeric , a free fast and accurate (according to them :) spreadsheet tool that you can get for free. Within our Dutch Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:48 AM by wouterv | 4 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• First signs of sensibility

  From Doug's blog: A month ago, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts posted a draft of its revised Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) policy, requesting comments from the public. As I noted in a post on June 30 , "The ETRM (Enterprise Technical Read More... Posted Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:33 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• Embrace, extend or extinguish

  There is a lot of discussion about how Open XML and OpenDocument Format should move into the future, and how the current situation came to be. To me it is important that the standard that I work with fully defines the features that I can use. On this Read More... Posted Saturday, July 28, 2007 11:45 AM by wouterv | 2 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• Questions on Open XML

  For those of you not only reading my blog, but also the other content provided by the Info Support blog community you probably have come across the great SharePoint content being created by my colleague Bart Gunneman. He is very knowledgeable on this Read More... Posted Sunday, July 22, 2007 1:50 PM by wouterv | 9 Comments Filed under: Open XML, ISO

• Talking about the OOXML standard

  Just yesterday was the second Dutch ISO standardization meeting of OOXML. For those unfamiliar, after being standardized at the European ECMA organization OOXML is now going through ISO. The ISO accreditation is broadly accepted and would allow OOXML Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:55 PM by wouterv | 1 Comments Filed under: Office Open XML, ISO

• Notes 2 self: Reasonable principles for reviewing Open XML and other standards

  Rick Jelliffe who is an authority when it comes to open standards has an interesting guide on the principals revolving around the review of Office Open XML for the ISO process (which I am taking part of as well) as well as all other standards. A great Read More... Posted Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:11 AM by wouterv | 0 Comments Filed under: Office Open XML, ISO