Open XML Overwhelmingly Approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500): the end of the file formats war

You’ve most likely seen a lot of speculations on the ISO vote for Open XML. Brian Jones, part of the Office Productteam and heavily involved in Open XML officially confirms the vote : APPROVED (This is no April Foolsday joke ;-)) … I’m sure many folks have seen the news…

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HP Buying Tower Software

Guy Creese (Burton Group) blogged about the Tower Software acquisition by HP. Interesting move by HP. :  There’s a SharePoint in every story … “The addition of Tower also is expected to enable HP Software to address the growing Microsoft SharePoint compliance and e-discovery opportunities.” Hewlett-Packard announced today that it…

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ISO to announce Microsoft Open XML result Wednesday

I’m closely monitoring the news .. Peter O’Kelly quoted Reuters who aparently quotes the ISO comittee … fingers crossed … The saga continues… at least until Wednesday The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) said it would reveal on Wednesday whether Microsoft (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) had won the support needed…

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Networkworld: Microsoft SharePoint taking business by storm

Networkworld published an article about the (very) rapid uptake of Microsoft SharePoint Server. Very cool that the introduction of Microsoft Online Services, which includes Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 hosted by Microsoft, is referred to as the ‘perfect storm’ … … Versatile Microsoft server may not be perfect, but it…

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