South Africa Files Official Appeal Re OOXML - OOXML in Limbo

The Embrace, Extend, Extinguish of ODF Begins?
"On the same day that I read that the South Africa standards body has filed an official appeal against the approval of OOXML with ISO/IEC, I find...

Has OOXML Broken the British Standards Institute?
Standards are supposed to be about a process of creating points of reference that people can rely upon, arrived at through a process of careful...

India Rejects Microsoft's OOXML Format
There are reports that the BIS Committee has rejected the Microsoft's document format OOXML. India's BIS has voted against OOXML. Out of 19 members,...

OOXML: Standards for accepting standards
There are demonstrable interoperability failures between Microsoft Office 2007 outputs, which derives from the only existing implementation of the...

Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 Mac/Win
This is the Microsoft's most portable wireless notebook mouse that connects directly to a Bluetooth PC without a transceiver, freeing up USB ports...

sed & awk (2nd Edition)
The book begins with an overview and a tutorial that demonstrate a progression in functionality from grep to sed to awk. sed and awk share a similar...

iMovie '08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
Whether you consider yourself a pro or a hobbyist, you have to admit that Apple's iMovie 08 and iDVD 08 are amazing right out of the box....