- Fri Aug 31 2007 Microsoft Open XML standards vote foments politics, dismay
A major milestone approaches on Microsoft's document standards gambit, but participants say that a final resolution won't happen anytime soon.
- Fri May 23 2008 Microsoft's backward route to ODF support
The changes Redmond's own OOXML underwent in becoming a standard make it more difficult for the company to support OOXML, rather than ODF, in Office 2007.
(By Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK) - Fri Jan 16 2004 Microsoft mulls opening of Office code
The purveyor of proprietary software is looking to expand its Shared Source Initiative to Office, which lets companies see source code underlying Office, server applications and more. - Tue Apr 6 2004 Microsoft airs tools' source code online
In what may be the first time Microsoft has adopted a pure open-source approach for a product, the company reveals the code for its Windows Installer XML software.
- Wed May 3 2006 OpenDocument standard ratified
An international standards group sets the stage for worldwide adoption of this open-source file format.
- Mon Feb 7 2005 Microsoft to release more source code?
Firm's developer unit may make available source code from popular tool for building user interfaces for Windows applications.
- Wed Apr 2 2008 EU investigation into Open XML vote still ongoing
European antitrust regulators sent letters earlier in the year to European standards bodies exploring how the standards-setting process was working.
- Wed Feb 23 2005 Microsoft may offer peek at SQL Server code
The company is looking at making the source code for the next version of SQL Server available under its shared-source program.
- Mon Apr 10 2006 Red Hat and JBoss: No turning back for open source
Red Hat's $350 million purchase of JBoss speeds up the collision between the once closed-off open-source world and entrenched software heavyweights.
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