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Exceed biometric standards, expert urges
News Organizations need to consider the business requirements instead of just meeting the minimum standards set, says member of independent biometrics group.
Tags: Biometrics, Security implementation/standards, Facial Recognition, Storage, Standards, Business Process, ISO standards, information technology, technical committee, Unisys Corp.
Microsoft gives US govt sneak peek of Windows 7
News Microsoft has given regulators an early version of Windows 7, the company noted in a court filing last week.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Sun, Oracle meet on Web services
News Sun Microsystems and Oracle plan to attend the first meeting to discuss a proposed Web services standard, despite their support of a rival specification.
Microsoft prepares for antitrust-status conference
News Microsoft and antitrust regulators are meeting this week for a status conference on the company's ongoing compliance with the consent decree.
Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, software company, operating system, compliance, Regulator, software, U.S., technical committee
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News Joining South Africa and Brazil, the two countries have lodged formal complaints about Microsoft's Office Open XML being ratified as a standard by ISO/IEC.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Office suites, Standards, XML, Appeal, India, Office Open XML, Open Source, International Electrotechnical Commission, technical committee
Microsoft opening up Office to other file formats
News Company is building in support for the Open Document Format, Portable Document Format, and other popular formats.
Tags: Open source, Office suites, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office, European Commission, Adobe PDF, general manager, technical committee
OOXML ratification faces delay after objection
News South Africa's national standards body becomes the first to formally protest the ISO ratification of Microsoft's OOXML document format--a move that should delay the process.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, Microsoft Office, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office 2007, Redmond, International Electrotechnical Commission, blog, technical committee, ISO
Australian ICT guidelines embraced as world standard
News Guidelines on IT corporate governance developed by Standards Australia gets adopted as an international standard by the International Standards Organization.
Tags: IT Governance, Standards, Standard, Australian Computer Society, Information And Communication Technology, Australia, IT governance, process improvement, corporate governance, knowledge
ISO rejects national bodies' appeals against OOXML
News Microsoft's document format is now almost certain to be formally published as an ISO/IEC standard within the next few weeks.
Tags: XML, Software, Business applications, Appeal, India, Office Open XML, Microsoft Office 2007, antitrust, Microsoft Office, European Commission
UK standards body taken to court over OOXML
News The U.K. Unix & Open Systems Users Group has launched a High Court challenge against the decision by the British Standards Institution to approve Microsoft's nascent document format.
Tags: Standards, Office suites, Office Open XML, Open Source, Standards Body, decision-making, Microsoft Office, industry, desktop, technical committee
ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance
News The move has been prompted by concerns ODF was not being properly maintained by its creator Oasis, says an ISO committee member, rejecting claims of a pro-Microsoft takeover.
Tags: Business applications, XML, OpenDocument Format, India, Office Open XML, Alex Brown, Microsoft Office, blog, technical committee, ISO
Utility computing spec takes refuge in OASIS
News Data Center Markup Language Organization joins XML body to broaden industry adoption.
Tags: Network standards/protocols, Utility computing
US Justice Dept: Vista satisfies antitrust deal
News U.S. prosecutors say Microsoft appears to have addressed all concerns raised about new Windows and Internet Explorer 7.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Antitrust, Government
Microsoft sails through document standard vote
News Office Open XML, the default file format in Office 2007, was certified Thursday as a standard at Ecma International.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Open source
Dueling tech blueprints vie for standard
News IBM, Microsoft, other biggies submit standards proposal for a Web-services-focused reliable-messaging spec. But a standard already exists.
Tags: Web services
