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Weeks out from a crucial ISO vote in Geneva on the ratification of Microsoft's proposed Open XML standard, Microsoft is engaged in a last ditch campaign to convince the wider industry that its endeavours are in the best interests of users.
Microsoft intends to submit file formats for its new Office 12 applications to the European standards body ECMA International. The company hopes this will allay concern about its level of control over document formats.
Open source advocates are in an uproar over the announcement (by one of their own) to build an open source implementation of Microsoft .NET based on the European Computer Manufacturer’s Association (ECMA) standard currently in the draft phase.
Microsoft has said a technology standards body has endorsed programming tools key to expanding the appeal of the company's .Net Web services plan.
Microsoft and its allies have quietly expanded an effort to gain acceptance for C#, the software giant's competitor to Java and a foundation for its next-generation Internet services.
A year after Australia's one-man army started pounding out code for GNU/Linux's version of .Net, he's looking to double the quarter of a million lines of code already written and convince some new -code demons" to sign up to the cause.
Builders of the Mono open-source development project has released an update that will let programmers write Microsoft .Net applications for Linux and Unix operating systems.
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