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Brazil protests ratification of OOXML

Associacao Brasileira de Normas Tecnicas issues an appeal to the ISO on the grounds that a key meeting in April was inconclusive and that discussions on the matter sometimes descended into farce.

May 30, 2008, 8:09 AM PDT

OOXML ratification faces delay after objection

South Africa's standards body has formally protested the decision approving the OOXML specification.

May 27, 2008, 9:40 AM PDT

U.K. standards body taken to court over OOXML

Group launches court challenge against decision by British Standards Institution to approve Microsoft's nascent document format.

May 1, 2008, 1:11 PM PDT

ISO calls for end to Open XML 'personal attacks'

The ISO committee handling OOXML braves open-source protests to meet in Oslo and works out how to ensure interoperability with ODF.
(By David Meyer of ZDNet UK)

April 15, 2008, 9:10 AM PDT

FireWire speeds set to quadruple

Backers say a new electrical specification will see the speed of the data-interfacing standard rise from 800Mbps to 3.2Gbps.

December 17, 2007, 8:18 AM PST

Microsoft document formats gain Mass. favor

update Proposed technical guidelines include Microsoft's Office Open XML on the list of "open format" standards.

July 2, 2007, 10:17 AM PDT

Digital signatures get Web standards nod

OASIS standards group ratifies a tamper-proof method for handling electronic timestamps, postmarks or official corporate imprimaturs.

June 7, 2007, 4:39 PM PDT

PCI Express turns 2.0

Group announces faster version of tech used to plug everything from video cards to InfiniBand adapters into computers.

January 17, 2007, 8:55 AM PST

Microsoft sails through document standard vote

Office Open XML, the default file format in Office 2007, was certified Thursday as a standard at Ecma International.

December 7, 2006, 11:31 AM PST