IBM Ethics Chickens Come Home to Roost
For months, IBMers like Bob Sutor and Rob Weir have been making outraged noises regarding perceived ethics issues surrounding the OOXML vote. They have been ‘shocked, SHOCKED’ by all the [...]
OOXML Hoopla: Believe the Bytes, not the Hype
In light of today's news indicating that ECMA's Office Open XML (OOXML) standard will be approved, I recommend this ZDNet blog post on the lessons learned from the process. In [...]
Antitrust enforcers from Europe and the US pledge role reversal
The Seattle Times reports that, last week, “there were several interesting developments and comments in the world of antitrust regulation. Consider this a very early pre-race analysis of an upcoming [...]
Chinese main mobile phone company to start trial of homegrown TD-SCDMA standard
According to the Associated Press, “China's main mobile phone company said Friday it will launch trial service of the homegrown Chinese next-generation standard next week, possibly moving the huge market [...]
Gartner expects worldwide PC sales to still grow by double digits
The New York Times writes that “A new report released Tuesday from Gartner, the market research firm, predicts year-over-year PC sales to grow 10.9 percent worldwide. That’s down from a [...]
ODF editor Patrick Durusau points out that ODF will suffer if OXXML’s standards bid fails
CIO reports that “[t]he editor of the Open Document Format (ODF) standard has written a letter that strongly supports recognizing Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) file format as a standard, [...]