Microsoft’s War Against Real (Impartial) Standards (Updated)
We continue to see Microsoft fighting against any standard which is not controlled solely by Microsoft. The latest target, as we’ve recently said, is Adobe’s PDF. The company seems to have adopted a...
View ArticleHow Things Work at ECMA ‘Production Line’
According to the following bit of information, ECMA does not exactly operate like a standards body should. Have a look (emphasis mine): Global Graphics’ chief technology officer Martin Bailey has been...
View ArticleWatch Out, ISO. XPS Coming Down Your Throat in 3, 2, 1….
In our previous writings about MS-XPS [1, 2, 3], we presented a case that makes Microsoft’s plan rather clear to see. The company wants its entire platform or stack essentially to be seen (and...
View ArticleFrom MSODF to MSPDF?
Summary: Microsoft Office’s support of PDF is also very poor THAT same old Microsoft spinner/AstroTurfer, who goes by the name “Ghettoblaster“, keeps derailing Wikipedia at a fairly high pace. S/He is...
View ArticlePatents Roundup: Microsoft, Danger in New Zealand, and Rise of Opposition
Summary: A lot of news about software patents and intellectual monopolies in general IT HAS been a long time since the last post about patents, so here is a quick summary. Patents in a Standard and...
View ArticleMicrosoft Buys ECMA for XPS; Watch Out, ISO
Summary: ECMA is done with Microsoft XPS, time to shove it down ISO’s throat LAST YEAR we warned that Microsoft would attempt to repeat something like the OOXML fiasco, this time for a static document...
View ArticleMicrosoft Hostility Towards XML Expands to Hostility Towards HTML
Microsoft’s vision seems as bright as nighttime Summary: Microsoft is looking to repossess documents by harming ODF, PDF, and HTML, using patents, FUD, RAND, and Silverlight FOR explanation and...
View ArticleBright OpenOffice.org Future, ODF News, and Antagonisers Spotted
From the Campaign for Document Freedom Summary: A lump of news about OpenOffice.org, ODF adoption and events, and the usual resistance from Microsoft (through partners and ecosystem) OpenOffice.org 3.2...
View ArticleMicrosoft XPS/Metro Appears to be Dead
Summary: All signs indicate that Metro is just history, so XPS is no PS (PostScript) or PDF A FEW years ago people started worrying about XPS, which was supposed to be Microsoft’s proprietary ‘PDF...
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