The story so far:
December 2006: 7 ECMA approves OOXML as ECMA-376
December 2006: ECMA submits ECMA-376 to ISO for consideration as an ISO standard under the fast track process
September 2007: ISO ballot process votes against adoption of the specs as a standard
April 2008: OOXML gets approved as an ISO standard
South Africa, Brazil, India, Venezuela, (possibly Denmark [...]
ILUGD is presently furiously discussing a legal procedure to get refund for the Microsoft Tax applied to all desktops and laptops that you buy from the branded market in India.
Here is a good definition of Microsoft Tax.
Some relevant snippets for the impatient.
The Microsoft tax is an unofficial, but commonly used term that refers to [...]
A great article on the online tussle between Microsoft and Google.
For anyone who has been watching Gates over the years, the idea that an upstart like Google could so flummox him and his fierce company takes getting used to. But Google is a rival unlike any he has faced in a long time. In previous [...]
Going through the daily drudgery of earning to survive, one always keep wondering – “where are we going with all this?” or “which way should I turn now?” or if you are a business, then “which way should we take today so that we are where others would try to flock to tomorrow?”. You are [...]
The other day I got an XLS file exported from a client’s Microsoft SQL Server. I had to import the data into MySQL, and I thought using CSV would be the right way. But there was a problem – the XLS cells had newlines in them, and exporting to CSV use to mess up, and [...]
