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 case you haven't been following things, OOXML is up for approval before the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It's been [...]
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 event in the Microsoft-Yahoo acquisition Olympics: The 400-meter regulatory hurdles. On Friday, a trio of top antitrust-enforcement officials from both [...]
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 closer to the long-anticipated rollout of new services. Companies expect a multibillion-dollar wave of spending on equipment once China awards [...]
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 December forecast of 11.6 percent, and the reduction is due to the worsening world economy. While a further downturn could [...]
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, arguing that if it fails, ODF will suffer. ‘As the editor of OpenDocument, I want to promote OpenDocument, extol its [...]